pewterhooter® London Collection Women's Sterling Silver

I bought these for my sister as she prefers a smaller understated earring rather than a huge statement pair.

They are 925 sterling silver with butterfly post fasteners. The Swarovski crystals are the real deal and catch the light beautifully.

Just a quick note. . .Swarovski crystals are one of the most copied and faked jewellery items going! You would pay a little extra for Swarovski than a bog standard crafting crystal and not everyone can tell the difference.

Here’s some telltale signs. . .

– Swarovski crystals are perfectly uniform. Since they are machine cut, each crystal is the same. This means that the height, width and slope are consistent. Hand polished imitator crystals will not have as uniform a cut. You may also notice different dimensions from crystal to crystal.

– The precision cutting of Swarovski machinery allows each crystal to have its facet juncture “pointing up.” This means the facet junctures all meet at precisely the same point. This is a similar aspect of diamond faceting.

– Swarovski crystals have a uniform surface luster. There are no swirling marks from the vacuum process that produces the finish and generally there are no scratches. The “imitations” often have scratches, swirl marks (“oily” looking surface). Some of these imperfections, in the “imposters,” have to do with the lower quality of the finish

– Because of its special glass compounds, Swarovski crystal will out-sparkle a crystal of lesser quality when placed in a side-by-side comparison.

Upon closer examination with my beady eye and jewellers loupe the Swarovski crystals here appear to be the real thing which is nice. They do catch the light and sparkle nicely.

How do I know all this you may ask? I used to work for an assay company with precious metals and gemstones!

These earrings are 6mm square. The butterfly posts are 9mm long and fasten very well indeed.

The volcano colour of the swarovski crystal is beautiful. This crystal really does play with the light in a lovely way! Colours sparkle and pop in and out of view with every head movement looking fantastic on the ears.

As this is called a Volcano crystal as you would imagine the colours you can see here are Reds – Blues – Greens – Violets – Ambers and Oranges. Imagine fire! A raging inferno! These are the colours you get here.

The crystals are set really well and shouldn’t fall/pop out of their seating. The earrings here look very well made and I would say are great value for money at this time of writing. They look waaayyy more expensive than they cost!

As a tightwad northerner – that can only be a good thing! My sister called me the day after she recieved them to say how lovely they were!

I will definitely be buying a few pairs of these as Christmas pressies for a few ladies in our family this year.

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