Beautiful, Matched Rutilated Quartz and Sacred Pipestone earrings with French Hook earwires. brooch then gracefully curved into hoop

then gracefully curved into hoop style earrings

I am an award-winning jeweler and gemologist with over 50 years of experience

or could be cut up into several high-grade and high-value cabs

comes this outstanding

hardest Turquoise I’ve cut in 50 years

Beautiful, Matched Rutilated Quartz and Sacred Pipestone earrings with French Hook earwires. brooch then gracefully curved into hoopI hardly ever make earrings, but I recently came across a pair of Rutilated Quartz gems that just HAD to be earrings, and here they are! These Sterling Silver earrings feature MATCHED outstanding Red Rutilated Quartz drops topped by stones of Catlinite (Sacred Pipestone, from Minnesota, prized by Native Americans for use in making ceremonial pipes such as Chanunpas.) I made these with open backs so that the light could play with the sparkling red