Vintage Sapphire Leverback Earrings hematite and finished in bright turquoise

and finished in bright turquoise enamel

probably exchanged by relatively poor couple

Individual beads: 15

000 members had joined

5 inches - Flowers: 2

Vintage Sapphire Leverback Earrings hematite and finished in bright turquoiseDATE: 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