Wear Art on Your Fingers:The Awakening of the Creative Soul of Artistic Sculptural and Enamel Rings
Wear Art on Your Fingers:The Awakening of the Creative Soul of Artistic Sculptural and Enamel Rings Wear Art on Your Fingers:The Awakening of the Creative Soul of Artistic Sculptural and Enamel Rings
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Billie French Steel Cut Earrings

Billie French Steel Cut Earrings

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THE STORY:

These earrings bring all the old-world glitz and glamour to the table: with French-Cut Steel details adding the right sparkly flair, these earrings are the perfect unexpected accessory for any occasion!

These earrings measure 2” from the top of the earring hook to the bottom of the design.

THE HISTORY:

Cut-steel jewelry was designed and “set” with tiny faceted and polished steel studs - fashioned to resemble gemstones. These small metal pieces were typically riveted in place and was originally meant to imitate gems like marcasite. This jewelry was typically fashioned in earrings, necklaces, brooches, bracelets, and even shoe and dress buckles. Unlike the paste gemstones of the 1700s, or cut crystal gems, cut-steel jewelry's most unique attribute lies in the fact that the setting and gemstone substitutes comprised of the same material. 

Cut-steel jewelry was produced as far back as the Elizabethan period in England but rose in demand - especially in France circa 1759, when cut-steel jewelry was worn as a substitute for donated (or hidden) jewelry when French King Louis XV ‘requested’ that citizens donate their precious gems and jewelry to help fund his military campaigns during the ‘Seven Years War’. Because of the French's infatuation and love for these steel-cut accessories, demand for these baubles accelerated greatly with English manufacturers in Woodstock and Birmingham - some of the main jewelry hubs not only in the country, but the world.

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