Australian Square-cut Sapphire and 9ct Gold earrings, each corner of the settings pointed with proper white Diamonds.
The Sapphires are AGrade “commercial” mid-blue, deep in colour but with a lively flash of blue.
The imported Italian safety clip earhooks are costly, constituting more than 20% of the price of these earrings. Such earhooks must be machine-made, the labour involved in handmaking being quite prohibitive, and the machinery required does not exist in Australia.
While on the matter of costings, it is interesting to note that the cost of the professional setting of these ten gemstones in Sydney also contributed to more than 20% of the price of these earrings.