Featured Help Identifying Designer of this Necklace Set...?

Hi, I'm new to this platform and was very happy to find it. I have a vintage necklace and earrings set that is unmarked, and I was hoping someone with expertise in this sort of thing may be able to point me in the right direction. It is (I think) a faux pearl necklace with gray crystal beads and matching earrings. Here are some pics.

 

It’s fifties ish, might be Japanese. Very nice.

 

Fifties is older than I thought, and that it might be Japanese is an intriguing idea. I must confess, I am new to identifying vintage jewelry. Thank you for your response!

 

It might creep into sixties, but those styles of small clip backs are very fifties. As is the hook fastening. The other candidate is west Germany, but I’m favouring Japan.

 

Same here. One way to estimate age on a necklace - measure it. The shorter the shortest strand is, the older the neckace is likely to be. 15 inchers are usually 1950s or even older. Some Victorian chokers made for adult females were only 12 or 13 inches long.

 

Thank you, that's something I definitely didn't know. I will have to measure it. 12 or 13 inches -- wow, that is little!

 

Maybe stating the obvious (but you said you are new to costume jewelry) The 12-13 inch length would not mean this is Victorian, one has to also look at the design. This design is 1950s (plus or minus a decade at most).

 

It’s also good quality. The fact that they bothered embellishing the actual clip with a rhinestone rather than it being plain.

 

My great-grandmother was five feet nothing, or thereabouts. An aunt by marriage was even shorter. One was born around 1875 and the other 1895. They weren't too unusual for the time.

 

My grandmothers were around that height.

it’s very noticeable here how elderly Indian and Asian women are tiny, but their grandsons are giants!

 

Agree. It's a nicer costume set. I almost wondered if it was from a maker like Vogue?

 

I measured it, and the strands are surprisingly about 12 inches in length, with the fastening chain on the end being 3 inches long (surprising to me, that is -- I always knew I never had an eye for measurements, and now I've confirmed it! ).

It definitely could be made by Vogue, as I have some pieces from the same estate that are.

Thinking about it, it makes sense. I think with the advances in medicine in the 20th century, and the stocking of grocery stores with many kinds of foods that were previously unknown, aided in causing people to grow taller. It does seem like every generation is just a little bit taller than the last.

 

Or has the chance to be anyway; a lot depends on genetics once malnutrition is out of the way.

 

True. I have some relatives who are very tall, and of course their kids are, too.

 

Would/could you post a photograph of just the dangle? Sometimes they can be used to identify the maker.

https://imageevent.com/flippingtreasures/identifieddangles

Debora

 

Sure, here are 2 pics of the dangle:

Dangle1 by Alamo Varieties posted Dec 14, 2024 at 2:17 PM

Dangle2 by Alamo Varieties posted Dec 14, 2024 at 2:17 PM

 

I don't see anything remotely identifiable there, but maybe someone else has seen the bead on the end before. Usually it would be a larger faux pearl.