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Vintage 1950s/1960s Emmons Jewelry Clip Earrings Rhinestone
Nifty pair of vintage clip earrings that will really make a statement when worn with an elegant outfit. Made by Emmons Jewelry and marked on their backsides both on the earrings themselves and on the clip portions. Silvertone metal (not real silver or sterling silver) each with one good sized light blue rhinestone (we'd call this a rhinestone or it may just be glass, we are not jewelry experts and don't know the difference). To us these look very light blue, not totally clear, but one does look slightly bluer than the other (not something we think one would notice when they are worn but you can see this looking at them side by side). The overall shape we would describe as large feathery flower petals. We've provided lots of images so you can see for yourself, showing both sides, close-ups and the marks. Please note that the white "hot spots" are reflections from the camera lighting on the shiny surfaces. In the images the lighting angle causes one earring to look overall more silvery than the other but that is not the case...they both are the same.
Large clip size with overall largest measurements for one earring of 1 1/2 inches in width by 1 5/8 inches in height/length. The petal portions curve backwards and downwards in a neat sloping fashion. The clip parts still seem good with a lot of spring to them. From a little bit of research, we believe Emmons was a part of the C. H. Stuart Company of Newark, New York, manufacturing jewelry beginning in 1949 into the 1980's. While we don't know for certain, from the style of these pieces and the older home from which they came, we believe these would have been made in the 1950's or 1960's. It seems that C. H. Stuart was also the parent company of Sarah Coventry Jewelry.
Very nice usable/wearable condition. They do show evidence of their age/wear, however. There are no breaks, dents or large chips. However there is a good bit of surface wear or surface metal flaking/peeling/chipping on the silvertone areas. This shows as darker spots & dots where you can see some of the top surface metal is gone/worn/peeled away (this piece must consist of a base metal with a shiny silver top coating which is what is peeling in many spots). There are other dark dots and a few light brown dots. We tried to show some of this in the closeups but it is hard to show. This is definitely there, but when worn and seen from a distance we don't think anyone would notice this since most of the top silver surface is still there (we'd guess better than 80-85% is still there). The rhinestones seem to us to be in good shape and clear, perhaps a bit dirty/dusty but we haven't tried to clean as we don't know the right way to do this and are selling this as is/as found. It looks like the rhinestones may be just glued into place; the prong parts look just decorative to us and not like they are really holding anything in place.
An eye-catching pair of earrings which would make a fun addition to your wardrobe or a collection of great 1950's and 1960's costume jewelry overall or jewelry by Emmons in particular.
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