Up for bidding is a magnificent quadruple strand of Akoya cultured pearls by Mikimoto. This strand is from Mikimoto’s top 3% harvest, and have the quality grade of “A.” The white pearls measure 7.5-7.0 mm in size, and have good luster. These 239 pearls are also beautifully matched and nicely round. The outer strand measures 20″ in length with 67 pearls, the two middle strands measure 19″ in length with 62 pearls and 18″ in length with 57 pearls, respectively, and the inner strand measures 16″ in length with 53 pearls. The necklace is ready to be worn as the pearls were restrung with silk thread by Mikimoto. The clasp, with a 5.5 mm pearl in the center, is sterling silver, and is fully hallmarked “S” with the Mikimoto logo “M” in a cartouche. The strand was appraised on October 30, 2008 by Mikimoto of New York at $13,600, and the Certificate of Valuation will be sent to the winning bidder. In addition, the necklace will come in a new grey-and-cement Mikimoto jacket with white outer box, so the winning bidder could present this as a very lovely gift. Overall, a truly wonderful Mikimoto necklace that is sure to please for generations to come. Please read the terms of the auction before you bid… *No international inquiries or bidders. *Only payment by Paypal will be accepted, no exception, and is expected within 12 hours from the end of the auction. *Winning bidder pays a flat shipping cost of $45 anywhere in the U.S. for USPS Express mail which includes insurance. *Item will only be shipped to a confirmed address. *Please ask questions prior to bidding as all sales are final. *And thank you for looking!

Vintage Mikimoto Pearl Necklace Up for auction is this exceptionally beautiful pearl necklace. This is a stunning piece that measures approximately 15″ long. Each pearl on average measures 6.0 mm – 6.14 mm in size and the first two on either side of the silver clasp are hand tied, the other pearls are not individually knotted. Each one is similar to the other in size, shape and color. They are creamy white in color and have a brilliant lustre. They are wonderfully brought together with the Mikimoto clam shell hallmark with a sterling silver clasp and an “S” at the bottom of the “M”. The clasp closes securely and this piece is in excellent vintage condition. This is a gorgeous vintage piece that would compliment any collection. Please email with any questions. NO INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING AVAILABLE. PLEASE DO NOT BID IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A U.S. MAILING ADDRESS. Buyer will pay $5.95 shipping/handling including insurance. We accept Paypal only. Buyer must contact us within 3 days with payment information. If you pay with an “echeck” through Paypal, your item will not be shipped until your check has cleared. After payment is received, we ship within 3 business days. Thanks for looking and good luck bidding. Lizzy’s Antiques & Jewelry, Inc. 1207 B Second Street Marysville, WA 98270 (360) 657-5276

Miriam Yeung abounding a top Japanese adornment cast MIKIMOTO’s event: “MIKIMOTO Collection 2010 – Rosy Bliss Wine Gathering”. That night it was aboriginal time Miriam abounding a accessible accident with her bedmate Real Ting, but they did not yield any pictures together. Originally Real was alfresco the foreground aperture affable the guests, but if he begin out Miriam was about to arrive, he anon went central to avoid.

That night Miriam wore a 4.5 actor account accessory. If she took pictures with the executive, the controlling angry to Miriam and accepted Real: “Your bedmate alive actual hard, did a abundant job. (in english)” Miriam heard this, she did not apperceive how to acknowledge and just laughed out loud. The controlling again asked area her bedmate has wandered to? She smiled: “walking around, acquire added money. (in english)” Towards the brace accessory a accessible accident together, it is accessible that they are alienated anniversary other? Miriam said: “How can you absolution a bifold CD, for a amount of one? You accept to appraise the selections! Anita Yuen and Chilam Cheung can do 3 CDs.” She reveals that her bedmate accustomed at the accident aboriginal to prepare, in adjustment to abstain collective problems for him, if she accustomed at the event, she accustomed him to blow a bit.”

Towards agreeable Miriam as a guest, Real bidding that because the advertisers absolutely like her, acquainted that her angel represents beatitude and joy. Her angel is accordant with the adornment accessories. He aswell smiled and said that he didn’t apperception that they appear contest as a brace team. Also, it seems as if Miriam has gotten chubbier, she explained: “There are some canicule every ages area women accept a cool figure, aswell I accept been bistro 7 commons lately.” She again bound antiseptic that she’s not pregnant, acquisitive that anybody will not misunderstand.

I would like to adorn the necks of all the women of the world with pearls –Kokichi Mikimoto

Born to a noodle-maker in a small town in Toba, Japan, Kokichi Mikimoto followed his vision and his passion to become one of the world s greatest inventors. His creation the perfect pearl.
Nature forms the lustrous pearl by chance inside the oyster, and throughout history this rare jewel of the sea remained synonymous with mystery, power, and wealth. A young Mikimoto vowed to make its beauty accessible to all and to protect fragile oyster beds that greed so wantonly destroyed. His quest to uncover the pearl s secrets led to the world s first cultivated pearl a feat no man had yet achieved. The name Mikimoto would become tantamount with the pearl around the world.
Today, Kokichi Mikimoto s goal that every woman might know the splendor of the pearl extends to nearly every major city in the world. Heavy in the hand and cool to the touch, the Mikimoto s pearls remain the ultimate symbol of pure, natural elegance.

When it comes to shopping for pearls, quality is key and no one does quality better than MIKIMOTO pearls. Since 1893 Mikimoto has been creating beautiful pearl jewelry for women all around the globe. With proper care, quality pearls can last a lifetime and they are so versatile you can dress them up or down, making them an investment in any stylish wardrobe.

The name Mikimoto has become synonymous with the highest quality of pearls. Only 3-5% of all cultured pearls will carry the Mikimoto name.  We couldn’t help but salivate over the pearls found at JR Dunn. Here are our favorites that will never go out of style no matter what outfit you may be wearing.

Born as the aboriginal son of an udon boutique buyer in, Mikimoto larboard academy at the age of 13 and awash vegetables to abutment his family. Seeing the fair defined of Ise auction their treasures at the bank in his adolescence started his allure with pearls.

In 1888 Mikimoto took a accommodation to alpha his own fair ability farm. He threw himself into the assignment of agriculture oysters and creating pearls, and for decades, he spent every alive hour on analysis and experiments. Regardless of the abounding complications imposed by nature, Kokichi apprenticed to accomplish every cilia of his getting to the assignment and he had the adamant aplomb to about-face boss attributes into his ally.

The day he had been cat-and-mouse for assuredly came on July 11, 1893. It was the actual aboriginal time in history if a animal getting had anytime created a pearl. In the aggregation of his wife Ume, Kokichi aloft one of the bamboo ability baskets out of the water, opened one of the oysters, and there, central the shell, he apparent a animated hemispherical pearl, but it took him yet addition 12 years to actualize chaplet that were absolutely all-around and duplicate from the accomplished superior accustomed ones. The new technology enabled Japan’s able fair industry to bound aggrandize afterwards 1916, and by 1935 there were 350 fair farms in Japan bearing 10 actor able chaplet annually.

Once he had succeeded in culturing a pearl, Kokichi’s appetite to analysis grew even stronger. He had consistently been bugged by the abstruse afterglow of the allegorical atramentous lipped chaplet and argent lipped pearls, and he fabricated up his apperception to try culturing them. In 1914, Kokichi opened a culturing website for Atramentous South Sea fair oysters on Ishigaki Island in Okinawa. Overcoming the generally alarming armament of nature, including around-the-clock typhoons, in 1931 he angry his fantasy into absoluteness with the assembly of a behemothic pearl, 10mm in diameter.He aswell accomplished a aggregation of advisers to the South Pacific island of Palau, area they had ample success in culturing pearls.While aggravating to accommodated the claiming of bearing atramentous lipped and argent lipped able pearls, he encouraged the development of bounded fair industries on ahead arrested islands. He contributed so decidedly to the development of these islands that the name ‘Mikimoto’ is announced of with admiration even to this day.

Just afore his afterlife on 21 September 1954, 96 year old Kokichi Mikimoto was awarded the Order of Merit (First Class) by the Japanese government.

In 1899, the aboriginal Mikimoto fair boutique opened in the fashionable Ginza commune of Tokyo affairs accustomed berry pearls, and bisected annular pearls. The Mikimoto business broadcast internationally, aperture food in London (1913). After World War II Mikimoto opened in Paris, New York, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Shanghai and Bombay, and was appropriately one of the aboriginal Japanese brands to attain an all-embracing attendance and recognition.

The Mikimoto mission lives on today, through the aliment of the accomplished standards of superior in the fair industry, and the around-the-clock strive for the finest abstracts and the a lot of affected of jewelery.