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Message:: [QUOTE="User 67, post: 18095, member: 67"]I have several silversmith/jewelry making books from the 1950s and 1960s and this does look like the kind of work they were making then. It's hard to say from a photo. I'd look for wear, marks and techniques, for a more definitive answer. Design wise, there was a resurgence of this type of jewelry in the early 1980s, as evely notes, taking off on the Memphis design but using those old wire work techniques. Most of the 80s stuff I've seen was done in sterling, though. And the 80s designer was more likely to add a different shape other than the sphere, like a cube or triangle cut out. The mid-century work tended to be more copasetic, as far as repeating shapes, relying on color, texture and size for variation. I don't know how to explain it, but the overall design is a little boxed in, reminding me of a Joseph Cornell, and that also makes it look like an earlier piece from the late 1950s to mid 1960s. The 80s pieces tended to be more exuberant and nutty even, like the house in Ruthless People (1986)[/QUOTE]