Wholesale Freshwater Pearls
A beautiful string of freshwater cultured pearls is something every woman loves. Stemming from naturally occurring phenomena, the freshwater cultured pearls industry has been a way of life for pearl farmers in Japan and China. Cultured and natural pearls occur in mussels in much the same way that saltwater pearls occur in oysters in the ocean. Freshwater pearls occur when foreign material gets into a mussel. Just as irritation occurs when a human gets a piece of dirt in his eye, the material irritates the mussel. Thus, the mussel covers the object with a secretion of nacre, a substance it uses to build shells.
Japanese were the first to produce cultured freshwater pearls. By the 1930s, the practice became a commercial business when corps of cultured, faceted freshwater pearl bead collections appeared. Produced almost completely with the nacre substance, many different faceted freshwater pearl bead colors began to form.
We have a great selection of quality wholesale freshwater pearls to choose from. Order yours now!
Large Holed Freshwater Potato Pearl - Cranberry
Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
Large Holed Freshwater Potato Pearl Mix!!! 8-10mm irregularly wonderful potato pearls all drilled with a 2.5mm hole that will easily fit a 2mm cord. . . Perhaps a nice leather cord or a bunch of different textured ribbons. The design possibilities are endless with these beauties. Each strand is 8 inches with approximately 24 pearls per strand.
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$15/8" strand
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Item #17152 |
Large Holed Freshwater Potato Pearl Mix!!!
Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
8-10mm irregularly wonderful potato pearls all drilled with a 2.5mm hole that will easily fit a 2mm cord. . . Perhaps a nice leather cord or a bunch of different textured ribbons. The design possibilities are endless with these beauties. Each strand is 8 inches with approximately 24 pearls per strand.
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$15/8" strand
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Item #16938 |
Large Holed Freshwater Taupe Potato Pearls!!!
Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
8-10mm irregularly wonderful potato pearls all drilled with a 2.5mm hole that will easily fit a 2mm cord. . . Perhaps a nice leather cord or a bunch of different textured ribbons. The design possibilities are endless with these beauties. Each strand is 8 inches with approximately 24 pearls per strand.
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$15/8" strand
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Item #16937 |
Large Holed Freshwater Glorious Green Potato Pearls!!!
Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
8-10mm irregularly wonderful potato pearls all drilled with a 2.5mm hole that will easily fit a 2mm cord. . . Perhaps a nice leather cord or a bunch of different textured ribbons. The design possibilities are endless with these beauties. Each strand is 8 inches with approximately 24 pearls per strand.
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$15/8" strand
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Item #16936 |
Large Holed Freshwater Champagne Potato Pearls!!!
Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
8-10mm irregularly wonderful potato pearls all drilled with a 2.5mm hole that will easily fit a 2mm cord. . . Perhaps a nice leather cord or a bunch of different textured ribbons. The design possibilities are endless with these beauties. Each strand is 8 inches with approximately 24 pearls per strand.
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$15/8" strand
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Item #16935 |
Large Holed Freshwater Bronze Potato Pearls!!!
Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
8-10mm irregularly wonderful potato pearls all drilled with a 2.5mm hole that will easily fit a 2mm cord. . . Perhaps a nice leather cord or a bunch of different textured ribbons. The design possibilities are endless with these beauties. Each strand is 8 inches with approximately 24 pearls per strand.
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$15/8" strand
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Item #16818 |
Large Holed Freshwater Peacock Potato Pearls!!!
Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
8-10mm irregularly wonderful potato pearls all drilled with a 2.5mm hole that will easily fit a 2mm cord. . . Perhaps a nice leather cord or a bunch of different textured ribbons. The design possibilities are endless with these beauties. Each strand is 8 inches with approximately 24 pearls per strand.
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$15/8" strand
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Item #16817 |
Large Holed Freshwater Ivory Potato Pearls!!!
Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
8-10mm irregularly wonderful potato pearls all drilled with a 2.5mm hole that will easily fit a 2mm cord. . . Perhaps a nice leather cord or a bunch of different textured ribbons. The design possibilities are endless with these beauties. Each strand is 8 inches with approximately 24 pearls per strand.
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$15/8" strand
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Item #16816 |
Graduated Pink Freshwater Pearl Bead Strand
Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
This wonderful strand of freshwater pearls is graduated from 5mm to 10mm. The quality is really nice. The color is a natural pink. Very round pearls and a nice luster. It’s really hard to find freshwater pearls that are graduated. Just restring and add a fabulous clasp!
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$100/16" strand
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Item #16429 |
Graduated Ivory Freshwater Pearl Bead Strand
Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
This wonderful strand of freshwater pearls is graduated from 5mm to 10mm. The quality is really nice. Very round pearls and a nice luster. It’s really hard to find freshwater pearls that are graduated. Just restring and add a fabulous clasp!
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$100/16" strand
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Item #16428 |
Black Freshwater Pearl Beads
Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
6.5-7mm. This is a color that it very hard to come by! Yes these are dyed a dark color!
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$18/16" strand
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Item #16426 |
Freshwater Ivory Pearl Beads
Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
3-3.5mm. Great size and nice luster.
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$16/16" strand
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Item #16424 |
Ivory Tiny Freshwater Pearl Beads
Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
1.8mm semi round. There are tiny!!! Have a great luster and did I mention that they are small?
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$15/16" strand
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Item #16381 |
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$12/16" strand
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Item #16380 |
Tiny Peach Button Freshwater Pearl Beads
Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
2.6 mm. Another Tiny pearl in a pretty peachy pink color!!! Great value on this one!
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$12/16" strand
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Item #16379 |
Perfectly Pink Tiny Seed Freshwater Pearls
Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
2.2mm. These are a nice semi round shape with pretty luster for such a small pearl. A rare find indeed! You asked for small pearls, so here they are!!!
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$30/16" strand
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Item #16377 |
Tiny Freshwater Button Pearls Ivory White
Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
1.5mm in a button shape. These are small pearls that work well in mass amounts or great for seed bead projects too. Very hard to find pearls this small with this nice a luster.
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$24/16" strand
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Item #16375 |
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$18/16" strand
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Item #16314 |
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Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
8mm x 10mm. This wonderful freshwater pearl bead has intricate fine silver bead caps on each end of the pearl bead. Sweet!!!
$4/bead
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Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
9mm x 12mm. This wonderful freshwater pearl bead has intricate fine silver bead caps on each end of the pearl bead. Sweet!!!
$5/each
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Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
This is a wonderful deal for a variety of pearls. All shapes, sizes and colors to please your palette. Top drilled, side drilled, long drilled and center drilled. These freshwater pearls come in a continuous strand that is a whopping six feet in length. Now that’s a deal!
$18/6 foot strand
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Item #16064 |
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Mabe Pearl Beads Ivory White
Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
Appx 17mm. ’A’ Grade - These are two Mabe Pearls fused together and drilled to give you a wonderfully unique strand of beads. These are in the "Oh My God" gorgeous!!! Must have. Get these while they last.
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$110/15.5" strand
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Item #16026 |
Freshwater Button Pearls-Pastel Rainbow
Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
5.5-6mm. What a lovely rainbow of pastel colors there are in these strands of freshwater button pearls.
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$8/16" strand
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Item #15037 |
Freshwater Peacock Button Pearls
Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
8.5-9mm. Peacock button pearls with lots of luster! Gotta love em!
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$34/16" strand
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Item #14935 |
Freshwater Bronze Button Pearls
Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
8.5-9mm. Button pearls in warm bronze color. Lots of luster!
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$16/16" strand
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Item #14934 |
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$28/16" strand
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Item #13655 |
Huge Freshwater Potato Pearls to Please!
Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
12-13mm. These are really nice. Some strands have more rings than others, but all are uniquely beautiful. Lots of luster. Great large quality!
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$48/16" strand
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Item #13524 |
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$6/16" strand
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Item #10344 |
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$8/16" strand
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Item #10343 |
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Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
40mm round. Each one is unique. These are embedded Mabe pearls that have formed within the shell and then the shell is cut. They are wonderful. I have hand picked each one. No two are exactly alike. All are wonderful. Great to use as a focal piece for wire wrapping, setting into silver, or encorporating into seed bead work. We have not drilled any holes into these.
$12/each
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Item #10116 |
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White Button Freshwater Pearls
Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
6.5mm. Nice luster. Some strands are flatter than others. All are beautiful!
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$12/16" strand
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Item #10112 |
Golden Button Pearls
Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
6.5mm. Very nice quality and cute size.
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$12/16" strand
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Item #10111 |
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$12/16" strand
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Item #10090 |
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$10/16" strand
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Item #10006 |
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$10/16" strand
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Item #10005 |
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$22/16" strand
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Item #9900 |
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$22/16" strand
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Item #9899 |
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$6/16" strand
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Item #9898 |
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$6/16" strand
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Item #9467 |
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$8/16" strand
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Item #9466 |
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$8/16" strand
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Item #9465 |
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$8/16" strand
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Item #9414 |
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$8.50/16" strand
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Item #9413 |
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$10/16" strand
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Item #9412 |
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$14/16" strand
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Item #9409 |
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$18/16" strand
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Item #9408 |
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$8/16" strand
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Item #9407 |
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$22/16" strand
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Item #9286 |
Naturals Multi Freshwater Pearls
Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
4.5-5mm. Beautiful colors here: ivory, pinks and lavender.
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$12/16" strand
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Item #9283 |
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$16/16" strand
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Item #9282 |
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$5/16" strand
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Item #9262 |
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$38/16" strand
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Item #9202 |
Freshwater Pink Potato Pearls
Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
8-10mm. Not a round pearl, but a great value and some nice luster.
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$12/16" Strand
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Item #8789 |
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$11/16" strand
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Item #7626 |
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$6/16" strand
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Item #7617 |
Freshwater Potato Pearl Mix - White/Silvers
Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
8mm approximate size. These are very pretty. Great luster. Each strand has a mix of whites and peacock silver pearls. Some do have rings, but the luster is very nice.
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$15/16" strand
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Item #7482 |
Freshwater Potato Pearl Mix - Green/Yellows
Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
8mm approximate size. Some of these have rings, but what a nice mix on each strand. Pretty luster.
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$15/16" strand
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Item #7481 |
Purple Peacock Freshwater Nuggets
Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
6 x 10mm average size. These vary a bit in shape. The luster and purplish peacock color is nice and unusual.
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$12/16" strand
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Item #7460 |
White Freshwater Pearl Nuggets
Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
4 x 8mm appx size. Nice luster on these basic white nugget pearls.
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$9/16" strand
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Item #5399 |
Mother Natures Pearls of Wonder!
Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
up to and over the 10mm size in thickness. They are very hard to size as each pearl is unique.These are what you could call mother natures’ mistakes. We call them "Pearls of Wonder." Mother Nature sometimes adds an extension of nacre, called a nodelle to the pearl offering endless creative possibilities. These beauties are natural in color. Some are peach and some have more pink in them. The luster is top grade. Very rare find. Only a few available. Net pricing here*
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$385/per 16" strand
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Item #4142 |
Flat Button Freshwater Pearl
Category: Wholesale Freshwater Pearls or Cultured Pearls - A Grain of Sand
6-6.5mm Flat button freshwater pearl
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$24/16" strand
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Item #195 |
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