11-09-2018 11:34 AM
I would love some help identifying the maker's mark on these 14k gold Mother of Pearl earrings. Please and thank you!!
11-09-2018 11:35 AM
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11-09-2018 02:39 PM
Your pretty earrings look like blister pearls on my monitor. Do they rise a bit in the middle? Still searching for a maker...
11-09-2018 09:10 PM
Your earrings are gorgeous! The pearls are "mabe," aka blister pearls.
From Google, just to share the information:
"Mabe (pronounced MAH-BEE): Mabe pearls grow against the oyster shell. This “blister” pearl is hemispherical in shape. Once harvested, the nucleus is replaced by resin, and the flat back is covered in mother-of-pearl."
Allison
11-10-2018 08:26 AM
They are very "Dior" looking but I'm pretty sure that's not an actual Dior sig.
11-10-2018 08:57 AM
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11-10-2018 09:45 AM
Now there's a mfr. I've never heard of, not that I've heard of them all. Have never run across it in all my years of scrolling through vintage jewelry on Ebay.
11-10-2018 10:06 AM
11-10-2018 10:16 AM
Latendresse...French for the "the tenderness"?
11-10-2018 10:28 AM
11-10-2018 12:28 PM
I was guessing. I don't speak French but I'm pretty sure I've run across "tendresse" before.
The only French phrases I know I picked up from Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie novels.
11-11-2018 07:02 AM
Tendresse actually means a feeling of fondness or love. If you've run into the word, it's more likely to have been in romance novels (especially Regency ones) -- she had a tendresse for...
Love Jewelry! What a great brand name!
Good guess with "tenderness," but French is full of what my old teachers called faux amis -- phony friends -- words that sound like English words but don't mean quite the same thing.