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Message:: [QUOTE="Joan, post: 1555964, member: 5398"]Beautiful earrings. I don't know if there's a specific name for the upper dangle (maybe staggered dangle?), but if you're planning to sell the earrings, I think it would be more important to include the words "invisible (or invisibly) set tapered baguettes" (at least I don't see any prongs or beads holding them in but I could be wrong). Trifari jewelry with invisible set rhinestones (created when Alfred Philippe was head designer) is especially prized. It is also referred to as waffle glass (when the rhinestones are square) and was made by Trifari and other companies (signed and unsigned) into the 1960s -- not sure if that type of setting was used much in costume jewelry beyond the 60s. I sold a Trifari brooch with invisible set tapered baguette rhinestones, but could see that three stones were molded as one piece, while yours all seem to be individually set.  In any case it must have been especially tricky to design and set tapered baguettes around curved surfaces of slightly different sizes like your earrings.[/QUOTE]