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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9857455, member: 2844"]Those are European leverbacks, used mostly in W and S Continental Europe. They are the more comfortable reverse of those awkward back to front leverbacks that became fashionable in W Continental Europe ca 1900.</p><p>I don't know who came up with the excellent idea to reverse those, but I suspect either Germany or France. Germans tend to be more practical, so it could be one of the Pforzheim makers.</p><p>Leverbacks are my favourite earhook type. Easy to put in and secure.</p><p><br /></p><p>Russian earrings typically have earhooks with a hinged triangular closure. Traditional Turkish earrings have those generic shepherd crook earhooks.</p><p>The use of leverbacks in either country is not traditional, so probably a fairly recent development. I have late Soviet era earrings that still have hinged triangular closures.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9857455, member: 2844"]Those are European leverbacks, used mostly in W and S Continental Europe. They are the more comfortable reverse of those awkward back to front leverbacks that became fashionable in W Continental Europe ca 1900. I don't know who came up with the excellent idea to reverse those, but I suspect either Germany or France. Germans tend to be more practical, so it could be one of the Pforzheim makers. Leverbacks are my favourite earhook type. Easy to put in and secure. Russian earrings typically have earhooks with a hinged triangular closure. Traditional Turkish earrings have those generic shepherd crook earhooks. The use of leverbacks in either country is not traditional, so probably a fairly recent development. I have late Soviet era earrings that still have hinged triangular closures.[/QUOTE]
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