Size: 7mm to 7.8mm

Colour:  multicoloured..mostly shades of green with peacock aubergine overtones

Shape: circle drops

Surface: mostly smooth, some 'fishbites and circles

Lustre:  very very good

Grade: mostly AA+

Length: 48cm

Clasp: 58

These are genuine Alexander Collins' tiny tahitians, direct from his farm on Takaroa, in the Tuamotu Archipeligo of French Polynesia. Only this one farm produces these delightful and therefore very rare and collectable and desirable under 8mm pearls.

Please note that these are circlé pearls, and so have circles and flaws. A strand of perfectly smooth Collins peacock drops would cost about four times as much.