Enamelled earrings and turquoise necklace, please help identify

Discussion in 'Jewelry' started by Simona Buhus, Apr 19, 2022.

  1. Simona Buhus

    Simona Buhus Well-Known Member

    Hello beautiful people,
    I wonder if the below items bring any bells. I bought them over a year ago as mixed silver, but I can say the earrings metal is yellow and it is not silver, I did not test for gold. Is there any possibility that could be gold considering the design?
    The turquoise necklace is silver, and I am quite sure that the turquoise is set in quite literally mud.
    I am now thinking to sell them as I never worn them.
    Questions
    Can anyone identify the design of the earrings and how old they are? Also where from would be nice to know.
    I think @Any Jewelry would love to see this necklace. I wonder where is it from and how old? Is it really mud that the turquoise are set in?
    Thank you all.
    Kind regards,
    Simona
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  2. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    50s enamel on the earrings. The necklaces could be anything from the 70s on up; they still make those beads.
     
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  3. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    They're turquoise chips. They actually go back to at least the 60s, Ma bought some then. That's a nicer necklace than some, looks sixties into 70s.
     
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  4. George Chaney

    George Chaney Well-Known Member

    Nice pieces. Unusual to find a pair of earrings finished on both sides. It is always possible they are gold, color is hard to make out with your darker photographs. I would expect them to be marked though they could be custom - which are usually signed as well. Given the rudimentary (heavy) of the screw back, it would not shock me if these were early. I would look closely for marks and file out a bit on the screw back brace to test for gold if not marks are found. I am leaning 1940's but could be older but not much later. Good quality however. A lot of detail went into these for costume bits.

    Love the necklace as well. As @Ownedbybear noted, the balls look to be polished rough turquoise caged in sterling. I am not familiar with the style, however when I see a barrel clasp with safety chain I think old. Again, I am not familiar with the design, but I would not put these as mid century, I would see them as 1920's or so.

    Cheers
     
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  5. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    The chips are set in a kind of black resin, then caged, either brass or low grade silver. Barrel with safety is fine for the sixties. I've quite a bit of this stuff.

    The screw backs may be screw clips, I can't quite tell. I suspect brass and Indian again.
     
  6. Simona Buhus

    Simona Buhus Well-Known Member

    Thank you so much for your reply.
    The earrings are not clips, are screw backs. The detail is remarkable, and also think they are brass, as I did not pay gold price for them, more like silver price.
     
  7. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    Some screws work as clips as well, if that makes sense. The screw tightens them. They do look Indian to me.
     
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