On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 17:19:30 GMT, Andi
wrote:

Hello everyone,

Just wondering if any of you could help me determine whether pearls on
this picture are real...

http://www.andreassteiner.net/temp/

I wouldn't think so. The color is more variant than usual, and nacre
rarely flakes so deeply as on the end bead. They're not glass, you'd
see that where the surface is chipped away. You can tell if they're
plastic by heating a needle and putting it to the inside of the bead
(kind of looks like someone already did that in the cracked section).
Hot plastic smells like hot plastic.

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Marilee J. Layman