Maker and Date - White Gold Earrings

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  1. Adambd13

    Adambd13 Active Member

    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.

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    Adambd13, Dec 2, 2025
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  2. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    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.
     
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  3. daveydempsey

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    PALD could mean Palladium, maybe gold with Palladium plating
     
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  4. daveydempsey

    daveydempsey Moderator Moderator

    They are probably not white gold too, maybe yellow gold and the highly polished silver is the Palladium plating.
     
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  5. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    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.
     
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  6. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    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.
     
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  7. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    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.
     
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  8. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

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