Ladies earrings stud styles-Vintage Cameo Screw Back Earrings

These cameos are lovely! The carving is exquisite, the colors of the natural shell are perfect, and the mountings are simple and subtle, yet rich, with an easy-to-match, latticework filigree.
Cameo is the art of carving a layered material, creating a portrait or landscape with the difference in colors. While traditionally done in shell, banded onyx has been used in cameo work - particularly in Greece and Italy - for hundreds, if not thousands, of years.

Metal: 18 Karat Yellow Gold
Cameo: Natural Shell, likely conch. Measures 14 x 10 mm oval 
Earrings Length: 20 mm
Earrings Width: 15 mm
Time Period: 1950's