Rowe St Silver, 1960s

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$200.00

Rowe St Silver, 1960s, in the late Art Nouveau style of the Scandanavian silversmiths of the period, in motifs of leaves and tendrils; originally screw-ons and set with Turquoise, now eardrops set with fine wine-red Garnet cabochons.
27mm total eardrop length, the gemstone settings 12mm across.

See below some information on these stylish unique period earrings.

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Rowe St Silver. Purchased in the 1960s when handcrafted silverwork in the late Art Nouveau style of Scandanavia was still created at the bench in Sydney, the above Rowe St Silver eardrops were originally screw-ons, not drops, and were originally set with Turquoise, not cabochon Garnets. Unearthed from their drawer in 2024, one Turquoise was missing, and one of the screw-on fittings was somewhat out of shape.
The work of cleanly removing the attached screw-on fittings, adding rings for the earhooks, handmaking the Silver hooks themselves, and setting the pair with matching cabochon Garnets, was all done in Sydney.

The cabochon Garnets in these Rowe St Silver earrings are from old stock, not dating back as far as the eardrops, rather to the late 1980s; they are of a superior wine-red Almandine colour, of a vivid translucency and fine quality quite difficult to source nowadays, when most new stock of Almandine Garnet is heavily included, muting colour and masking transparency.
Note: the Garnet cabochons are more vibrant in colour than shown in the above images. Sometimes this non-professional photographer does not quite nail it.