Question for the gem folks...

[Montauk3]

Picked this up last week. I don't have any idea. It looks like a pearl but I don't think pearls get so big.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

 

[diggummup]

Picked this up last week. I don't have any idea. It looks like a pearl but I don't think pearls get so big.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

Hard to tell a pearl. Try this- http://www.karipearls.com/test.html

 

[Montauk3]

Thanks.

Ralph

 

[Buried Crap NJ]

Ok If you want to know if it's a real pearl pick it up and put it up to you front teeth. Gently move it back and forth side to side. You will feel a grit like sandy feeling if it's a real pearl. If it slides without this feeling it's cultured or glass/plastic. This is really the only true way to test for real pearls. If you have false teeth this may not work?
I know this because I brought in a very large pearl mounted in 22K and I ask the Jeweler to test the pearl. This was how he did it and told me it was the only way. The piece I brought in was very pricey
5 figures. Flea Market find .50 cents

 

[Montauk3]

Thanks for the reply.
I tried as you suggested but had nothing to compare to.
As my luck runs, I'll accept fake till proven otherwise.

Ralph

 

[niffler]

I think it's called a "mabe" pearl, part of a mother of pearl shell that has the properties of pearl. That's a big one. Niffler

 

[digum smacks]

what is the setting made of silver platinum,white gold,dont know?

 

[Montauk3]

what is the setting made of silver platinum,white gold,dont know?

Yellow gold. 14K