CUT STEEL pendant & ear drops

Regency, Circa 1790 - 1810,
Cut Steel pendant and ear drops
Pendant, length 2", composed of diagonal openwork square 1" x 1", with corner rosette details, around a center flowerhead of navette shape and round cut steels. Two lower pendant drops are cut in elongated
pear/teardrop shape; center pendant ornament is missing.
Ear drops, each 5/8" pear shape, with elongated pear shape steel surrounded by border of tiny round steels.
Total length 1", from the later sterling screw backs.

All cut steel ornaments are riveted to a system of brass back plates. This type of riveting was discontinued by the second quarter of the 1800's.
(Ref, -- Waller, Myra L. "Glossary of Antique Jewelry Terms" in "Heritage", Jeweler's Circular Keystone, May 1989)

marks : The later screw-back ear fitments each struck with Swedish hallmarks, 830 silver, circa 1912-15.

Provenance : said by the previous owner to be inherited from Miss Vermont of 1948
# ng 08043 e .............. pendant & earrings, $ 650.