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 Post subject: Bead less cultured,what they actually are?
PostPosted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 10:35 pm 
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Hello everyone,i sent a pearl strand to GIA.
To me they are natural pearls,GIA certified them as Beadless Cultured,but they did not clarify what is beadless cultured technically?there is no product in the market which you can buy as beadless cultured.beadless means they are 100 percent nacre,there is no bead,but may be some human intervention when the perals were forming.These pearls are atleast 100 year old.
I request members of this forum to put some light on this.

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 Post subject: Re: Beadless cultured,what they actually are?
PostPosted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 12:39 am 
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Rapaport Magazine (September 2010) did an article on these pearls:
-Beadless Pearls
Industry experts debate whether a beadless pearl is natural or cultured.
BY Deborah Yonick


-Cultured and natural pearls identification

by by MS Krzemnicki:
http://www.ssef.ch/fileadmin/Documents/ ... 010May.pdf
[pdfview]http://www.ssef.ch/fileadmin/Documents/PDF/newsletter_pearl_2010May.pdf[/pdfview]

Addendum to pdf above:
http://www.ssef.ch/fileadmin/Documents/ ... ay_add.pdf
[pdfview]http://www.ssef.ch/fileadmin/Documents/PDF/newsletter_pearl_2010May_add.pdf[/pdfview]


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Thanks Barbara,you are always helpful :)

nice aricles and very helpful indeed.

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