Early 20th Century 18ct White Gold, Zircon & Diamond Drop Earrings

Zircons were popular during the early 20th century and are one of the oldest stones. They have been used in jewellery for over 2000 years and occur in an array of colours from yellow, green, red, reddish brown and blue hues. The zircons in these earrings are a beautiful intense blue and each one has a rub over set diamondA precious, lustrous gemstone made of highly compressed carbon. Diamonds are one of the hardest materials known to mankind. Colours of diamonds range from colourless, yellow, orange and brown to almost black. Natural coloured (or ‘fancy’) diamonds can be extremely rare. The cut, colour, clarity and carat weight of a diamond are the criteria jewellers use… above it. They are 18ct75% pure gold (or 750 parts pure gold and 250 parts other metals) white goldWhite gold is an alloy of gold and at least one other white metal – most often nickel or palladium (both of which act as a bleaching agent to reduce the natural yellow colour of the gold). and were made circa 1920.

They can be worn day and night.