REAL PEARLS or FAKE PEARLS? How to tell the difference

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  • Опубліковано 27 лис 2024

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  • @ofkgjsl
    @ofkgjsl 3 місяці тому +2

    She has the most beautiful smile. Gorgeous lady - so elegant and graceful

  • @justcurious4060
    @justcurious4060 10 місяців тому +3

    i love pearls and i mean love love (5x)Pearls !! My mon wore a small pearl in a gold heart very 70s and i always loved to look at it .. i am saving for a Baroque pearl pendant ( an marie antointte style) ... and Opals ...you gotta like the magic of Opals. both are so fascinating. Dont have those yet ... but who knows. Thank you for the tips ..

  • @helenabiesma5560
    @helenabiesma5560 10 місяців тому +1

    my last post man was a fresh water pearl collector and these fresh waster pearl were
    dropped over to the UK personally and these were used now in one of he last pearl sets given to late Diana - Princess of Wales - by Charles at the time - now these are not collected anymore even thought he found a way to open them without killing them - so that again again explain why they are so valuable and all the same advice is the same what she said
    so spot on

  • @skiracer
    @skiracer 10 місяців тому

    Dear Candy and David, thank you for the nice presentation about pearls. Thanks to AOH for hosting the shoot. Love this channel!

  • @jadedrealist
    @jadedrealist 4 місяці тому +3

    Everytime your partner walks behind her with the tablet over his face (filming) that's all I can see, and it makes me chuckle. You have a keeper there.

  • @wills242
    @wills242 7 місяців тому +1

    This was great man. You have a knack for interviewing experts!

  • @AntoniaDyson
    @AntoniaDyson 10 місяців тому +2

    That was a lovely pearl necklace.....

  • @KaysFantasy
    @KaysFantasy 6 місяців тому +1

    @David Harper Antiques TV!
    My nan gifted me with her pearls that her husband had bought for her years ago, unfortunately my nan has passed but I was fortunate enough to inherit her pearls and they are indeed Natural Pearls 😊🌊🐚 I adore my pearls and won't ever sell or give them up. No matter what price someone gives.

  • @valerierennison7616
    @valerierennison7616 10 місяців тому +1

    Interesting video David,it made me do the Pearl test again❤

  • @OriginalNethead
    @OriginalNethead 10 місяців тому +3

    Rub suspect pearl on front teeth. Smooth = faux. Gritty = either real ( cultured or natural, and as she said naturals can be stupidly expensive) or a high-end fake like vintage Mallorca Pearls. The latter cost more than some real ones (i.e. Chinese freshwaters). I eliminate 90% of fakes by eyeball, at least in person. The paint around the holes is a dead giveaway. Another dead giveaway is the shape. If they're perfectly matched and perfectly round... let's say it's highly likely they're fakes. As in El Gordo/ Megabucks Lotto odds. If you're blindingly lucky you may find a conch pearl, but you won't. Might find a pretty fake one though - they're a deep peach color, more or less. Perfume also affects fake pearls, btw. They discolor.

  • @lynneswanson5803
    @lynneswanson5803 6 місяців тому

    How fascinating! Thankyou so much for this info. I am an avid pearl lover.. faux or real I don’t mind.. I keep snapping my pearls and always on the hunt. One are probably all glass but I can test them now. 💐💕

  • @tanya5142
    @tanya5142 8 місяців тому +1

    I loved this video!!! Thank you

  • @DontKillBirdie
    @DontKillBirdie 6 місяців тому

    What I would have been interested in is how you tell a good quality cultured pearl necklace from a lesser quality cultured pearl one, with pearls that have a large nucleus, as the lady was saying.

    • @DavidHarperAntiques
      @DavidHarperAntiques  6 місяців тому

      Get in touch with Candy. her contact details are in the video description

  • @valerierennison7616
    @valerierennison7616 10 місяців тому

    Seems 3 strands out of 4 are good but not certain yet❤

  • @louisasmiles
    @louisasmiles 10 місяців тому +2

    Pulls out my pearls.... yups. The tahitians are gritty
    Yups fake ones are smooth.

  • @onestarabove7027
    @onestarabove7027 5 місяців тому

    The interviewer needs to learn to play the second.

    • @DavidHarperAntiques
      @DavidHarperAntiques  5 місяців тому +1

      Did you learn anything new, interesting or helpful? and if I didn’t ask questions, keep the conversation going and to the point, would you have learnt any of this?

  • @LMFAS9528
    @LMFAS9528 5 місяців тому

    I've ended up with a string of pink pearls from inheritances i'm trying to find out if they're real or not and this video taught me nothing and left me with the same unanswered questions ,,Grittiness is to me as a person that knows nothing is relevant ,what is gritty to me might be smooth to someone else ,weight ,what the hell does that mean when there is no sizes comparisons for me to judge what weight she is even talking about ,how ever this would be good for primary school students as an interest video that doesn't really teach anything ,hence me learning nothing from this video ,,,some pictures ,diagrams close up microscope pictures with obvious points would be helpful ,,it seems i'm going to just have to go to the jeweler

    • @DavidHarperAntiques
      @DavidHarperAntiques  5 місяців тому +1

      I doubt very much you’ll ever get decades of experience in one video. It might be that you need to put a bit more time into your own research for your own good. This video is highly informative and will start you off on your road of discovery. But, yes paying a jeweller to do this for you is also a good idea