Got a short hunt in, no gold this time...a silver(925)chain and pearl pendant saved the day!! A 1948 nickel surpriseingly in good shape and a couple of trinkets. My wife did the tooth test on the pearl and is real!! HH hunting and I hope u get the gold!!
Cliff, I'm sure there are other profesional ways to test pearls...but we were told that if you scraped you tooth edge on the pearl and it has a gritty feeling than most likely it is real, a fake pearl bead will slide smoothly.