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Awesome, thank you for that nugget of information! I don’t know a ton about Southwestern design, so I wouldn’t have know where to start on getting any type of time frame for the year aside from the markings on the back. I’ll likely never know but it’s nice to have a general time frame idea

 

There's also the pierced vs. clip-on thing. Pierced earrings weren't popular until the 1970s so they're unlikely to be earlier. Your pair aren't of the highest quality and look as if they might have been targeted to the tourist trade. Besides "STERLING" and "925", they will have a maker's mark if you can decipher it. There are lists of Taxco marks on line. Here's one:

https://www.925-1000.com/mexican_marks.html#google_vignette

Debora

 

That site is the one I found to get my “post 1979” date. They’re not by a famous Taxco artist by any means, but they do have a TZ-08 stamp after “Mexico 925”. To which I read on that site means it’s an artist in Taxco with the letter Z as either a family name or first name, and (s)he’s the 08th artist to register at the assay’s office with those letters. I’m not worried about quality, I’m not looking to re-sell any time soon, I just liked the design and they’re a fun piece to wear ^_^ Definitely good getting to know about them though.

 

I never used to like diamonds, until I saw the Great Star of Africa, a huge pendeloque (teardrop) cut from the Cullinan. So also cut by Asscher.
It is set in the UK Sovereign's Sceptre with Cross, and it looks like it sends out all the world's rainbows, and heavenly lights. I was totally in awe when I saw it, and walked past it several times (impossible nowadays, you get ushered out of the vault once you've run past it). That stone converted me and installed in me a love of diamonds.

 

Might work on me, but it might not. I like big diamonds even less than the usual ones.