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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 9607316, member: 5833"]Welcome, Htburden. You don't need a jeweller to tell you whether or not the pearls are genuine or artificial. No matter how smooth they feel to the fingertip, real pearls will have a grittiness to them when lightly rubbed against the teeth, while man made pearls will be slick as glass.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your guess about age is going to be better than ours, since we do not know the years of Grandma's adult life. If she was the same generation as my mother, I would guess they are from 40s/50s, the days of cotillions & cocktail parties.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 9607316, member: 5833"]Welcome, Htburden. You don't need a jeweller to tell you whether or not the pearls are genuine or artificial. No matter how smooth they feel to the fingertip, real pearls will have a grittiness to them when lightly rubbed against the teeth, while man made pearls will be slick as glass. Your guess about age is going to be better than ours, since we do not know the years of Grandma's adult life. If she was the same generation as my mother, I would guess they are from 40s/50s, the days of cotillions & cocktail parties.[/QUOTE]
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