Maker and Date - White Gold Earrings

Hi all,

I have a pair of white gold earrings. They are just over 7.6 grams and about 1.1ct in small diamonds, gross. I am having some trouble with dating them and identifying the maker. GB, 750, London, and a date letter that looks like an S but I don't think is (unclear on both earrings). And then a curious mark (PALO? PALD? PAI O?).

Any assistance would be much appreciated.

With warmest regards,
Adam.

 

Other than 750 I can't read the marks. But if I remember correctly, this style has been fashionable from the 1990s-now. So nowhere near antique.
The way the stones are set is called pavé, if that helps.

 

White gold can be platinum plated, so I asume it can also be palladium plated. Such plating is done to give the jewel extra lustre, not to make it white.

 

I'm seeing yellow at the hinge, so likely yellow with palladium plating. Either way, I agree that they're not really old. A lowercase S mark indicates 2017, which is a match for the design. Uppercase is 1992-ish, and rather early for the way these are made.

 

If I'm putting it together correctly, in the US this style of earring is called a 'huggie'. Trying to remember if it was the 80s or the 90s when they first became popular here.

 

Think you're right that it was the 90s.