Stylish Tribal Silver earrings, old, handcrafted in Gujerat, West India around the 1950s, high Silver content.
Silver jewellery has always been of major importance to Tribal India, as a store of family wealth, as a sign of prosperity and a symbol of prestige and standing. When the British colonialists supplanted the Mughals as masters of India, they took care to create Silver coinage of high Silver content, as was Mughal Silver coinage, recognising the immense social sway of high Silver content coinage among the great multitudes of the Tribals of India, for not only was it, after property and livestock, the prime store of wealth, the village silversmith had only to melt down coins to create Silver jewellery.

The above Stylish Tribal Silver earrings would almost certainly have been created from the British Silver Rupee, minted with 91.7% Silver purity, never varying from government-controlled mint to mint.
India is an ancient land of many cultural layers, and jewellery styles vary from region to region, but there are only a few regions where jewellery styling is unique to that region, and Gujerat is one. Earrings such as the above, simple in styling, primitive even, are to modern western eyes simply smart, amazingly modern.