Help Identify These Pearls? Pearl experts please.

[orotreasures]

[prettywoman-2012]

Hi No person, who is honest, can identify for you a piece of pearl jewelry without the item being in his / her physical presence. While it is true that genuine, high quality salt water pearl necklaces have individually knotted pearls - there are also plenty of fake pearls (made of glass and no-nucleus type costume jewelry pearls) that use this trick to make the necklace appear more valuable than it is. There are also high quality FW pearls knotted individually, although they are rarely perfectly round and uniform, like these. Which means, the necklace is possibly either genuine salt water pearl or fake. 

See if this link helps: 

https://www.pearl-lang.com/pages/how-to-identify-real-pearls-from-fake-pearls

Also, if you hover over Discussions at the top of the page, you will find that there is a Jewelry board that would most likely be helpful for future identification requests. 

Best of luck

PW🐿

[orotreasures]

Thank you for your very informative post.  I'm actually in the jewelry repair business with over 20 years of experience.  However, when it comes to pearls,  I'm no expert.  I took them to a downtown Los Angeles pearl booth and they told me they were Mikimoto.  However, I want other opinions, as I couldn't find any Mikimoto pearls online with a peach to pink hue, as shown here.  The clasps are solid 14k yellow gold and so are the spacers.  I just want to list them honestly, that's all.  

I'll check out that link you posted.  Thank you!

[prettywoman-2012 · Accepted solution]

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@orotreasures wrote:

Thank you for your very informative post.  I'm actually in the jewelry repair business with over 20 years of experience.  However, when it comes to pearls,  I'm no expert.  I took them to a downtown Los Angeles pearl booth and they told me they were Mikimoto.  However, I want other opinions, as I couldn't find any Mikimoto pearls online with a peach to pink hue, as shown here.  The clasps are solid 14k yellow gold and so are the spacers.  I just want to list them honestly, that's all.  

I'll check out that link you posted.  Thank you!

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you are most welcome! And yes, nobody can be an expert in everything. I also often rely on consultation with experts, when it comes to antiques. The fact that the clasp is solid 14K gold makes it very likely that you have a valuable pearl item there, since most FW and fake versions would have GP or GE clasps. When t comes to GF, now that is a different story, as some older pieces with genuine pearls may have GF parts.

I hope this turns out to be real Mikimoto, which is among the most valuable Japanese pearls,

Stay safe

PW🐿