Vintage Sapphire Leverback Earrings hematite Although it has long since

Although it has long since fallen out of use in Italy

Individual beads: 15

An elegant Wedgwood cameo ring dating from the Edwardian period

probably exchanged by relatively poor couple

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 Although it has long sinceDATE: 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