Vintage Sapphire Leverback Earrings hematite The gold is wonderfully textured

The gold is wonderfully textured

a tantalising glimpse of what they would go on to experience in eternity

Earrings: 1

A gorgeous Edwardian round cluster ring set with a vibrant blue sapphire "floating" within a halo of old mine cut diamonds

Vintage Sapphire Leverback Earrings hematite The gold is wonderfully texturedDATE: Vintage, c. 1980 Stylish vintage lever back earrings dating from the 1980s. Each one featuring a vertical row of vibrant cornflower blue lab grown sapphires, of striking colour and excellent clarity. Like the invention of paste gemstones 200 years earlier, lab grown sapphires could (and did) command higher prices than their naturally formed counterparts when they were first invented at the turn of the 20th century. In part because they were