VICTORIAN SCARAB BEETLE EARRINGS

A super cool pair of Victorian scarab beetle earrings!

Circa 1880, these are Egyptian revival at its finest!

The earrings are made of two perfectly preserved scarab beetles, which are set in 15ct gold closed back mounts, with a fine rope-twist border.

The beetles have natural colour variation over the pair! One has a bright green luminescent shell, the other has a darker green brown sheen.

The earrings have the original high carat gold tear drops and spheres, with high carat gold shepherds hooks.

The earrings look excellent on, and are super light so they are very comfortable to wear.

The trend of wearing real bug jewellery became popular in the Victorian period.

People were fascinated with the new discoveries of foreign lands, exotic animals and bugs during this time.

As urbanisation grew, the Victorians become more detached from nature, so using bugs and animals as adornment was a way to bring them a little closer to nature again!

This is a little piece of history!

Size of beetle approx: 1.7cm x 1.4cm

Drop approx: 3.5cm

Rare find