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fifty three pearls, graduating from 8.5 to 11mm in diameter, of natural colour and graduating from dove grey to almost black and of very good lustre, strung knotted with grey silk to a white metal ball clasp stamped 'Au750', overall length 47cm, weight 71.8g

Footnote: A graduated strand takes much longer to assemble than a uniform necklace and it can take many years to select the matching pearls, especially when the necklace is graduated in both colour and size. The jeweller has to take into account not only the lustre and orient, but in this particular case, the colour, size, surface blemishes and matching characteristic for each pearl. Tahitian pearls are rare, and the lack of choice makes it even more difficult and time-consuming for the jeweller to produce a strand such as this example.

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