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Charlie Cheswick, thats so funny!
Would love to see a wild boar in the city where I live.
Maybe they only come out at night
I was a bit creative with the carpet at the entrance.
Might well be obsidian.
Cold to the touch so no plastic to me.
Oh well, they are lovely either way
Thanks for the hive mind everyone!

 

Charlie Cheswick, you are so funny! Would love to see a wild boar in the city where I live.
I was a bit creative with the

 

The daily hardships we joolies have to deal with.

Continental European Art Deco jewellery makers combined gold and base materials as part of their experiments with new materials. Dessert's earrings are older, guesstimate ca 1900, but the Art Nouveau also had novel combinations of materials.

My 14k Art Deco Franz Breuning earrings with an as yet unidentified black plasticky material:


https://www.antiquers.com/threads/14k-gold-earrings-art-deco-what-other-material-please.31779/

 

I WAS RIGHT
sorry context lol
There was a vide grenier on monday, and I found a single earring, older, with a beat up piece of purple glass/stone/something. It was marked FB and 222 exactly like yours are. When I couldn't find anything about 222 online, and no 2nd earring showed up I put it back. The guy quoted me 100 euros for some silver bits and pieces I fished out of his dusty bins he threw stuff into (literally while I was there tossed stuff in without a care in the world) so I wasn't gonna get anything anyway, but nice to know my hunch was correct. 222 is odd though.
I've seen a few FB earrings and always discarded as a random costume, next time I'll know differently.

 

Mine are marked FB and 585, not 222.

What looked like a 222 mark could be a partly stamped 333 mark (no room for the lower part). Germany used a lot of .333 gold, so 8k.
Mine are stamped 585 though, so 14k.

Franz Breuning is a good name, a Pforzheim maker.

 

oh yes I know, I meant its marked the same way, FB on one side, and the mark on the other, in the same font etc.

Oh that would explain it! Thank you. I'll have to look into more FB pieces so I know what to look out for.

 

Ah, OK.

If you came across them in the past, you'll come across the again.

I just checked, the company still exists, so look for older styles. The ones with a 333 (222) mark are likely to be pre-1975ish, but older is better. Art Deco period is best of course.

 

Great, thank you for the tip! I'll keep an eye out now