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<p>[QUOTE="IvaPan, post: 9497570, member: 78949"]Hi folks,</p><p>I have a couple of coral necklaces and have wondered how to tell if the beads are dyed or they are genuinely red. For some I know for sure they are dyed as they leave a red trace on a cotton bud with acetone. They also have spots of white here and there.</p><p>But some does not do it. So I would like to have your help in identifying. Below is one of the necklaces - one of the beads has a whitish spot so probably this is a sign of being dyed but the rest look like natural to my untrained eye. The beads (or rather branches) are more orange than they appear on the pictures. It has a spring ring clasp. Thank you very much, as usual!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]447995[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]447996[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]447997[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]447998[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I would like to call [USER=2844]@Any Jewelry[/USER] as our coral expert here.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="IvaPan, post: 9497570, member: 78949"]Hi folks, I have a couple of coral necklaces and have wondered how to tell if the beads are dyed or they are genuinely red. For some I know for sure they are dyed as they leave a red trace on a cotton bud with acetone. They also have spots of white here and there. But some does not do it. So I would like to have your help in identifying. Below is one of the necklaces - one of the beads has a whitish spot so probably this is a sign of being dyed but the rest look like natural to my untrained eye. The beads (or rather branches) are more orange than they appear on the pictures. It has a spring ring clasp. Thank you very much, as usual! [ATTACH=full]447995[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]447996[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]447997[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]447998[/ATTACH] I would like to call [USER=2844]@Any Jewelry[/USER] as our coral expert here.[/QUOTE]
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