{"product_id":"vintage-shube-sterling-silver-turquoise-southwest-teardrop-drop-dangle-earrings","title":"Vintage Shube Sterling Silver Turquoise Southwest Teardrop Drop Dangle Earrings","description":"\u003cp\u003eShube sterling silver teardrop drop earrings set with oval turquoise cabochons in the Southwest tradition. Each drop is a pear shaped frame outlined in a scalloped border of rounded silver bumps that runs the full perimeter, giving the edge a soft beaded rhythm rather than a hard line. The turquoise sits low in the wide end of the teardrop, a smooth domed oval held in a plain bezel that wraps the stone completely, and the color is a clean medium blue with occasional dark matrix breaking the surface. Above the stone the frame opens into negative space, with a single curved silver wave sweeping up through the gap toward the narrow point, so the top half of the drop is as much air as metal. Each drop hangs from a jump ring on a French hook ear wire, and the backs carry the Shube's maker's mark alongside STERLING.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat mark is the find here. Shube's Manufacturing, Inc. was a hand crafted silver house operating out of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and it ran for more than three decades before the Hoeweler Group of Cincinnati acquired it and renamed it Shube's Inc. The same parent company owns South Dakota Gold, the recognized icon of the Black Hills gold category, which put Shube's under the same roof as one of the most established names in American regional jewelry. Their earliest registered trademark shows first use in commerce in 1980, placing the company's working life squarely in the decades when Albuquerque was the production center for Southwest silver, and signed pieces from that era are what collectors in this category actually hunt for rather than the unmarked import work that floods the same shape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe design itself is pure Southwest logic. All the visual mass sits in the lower third where the stone and bezel are, while the open top keeps the earring from reading as a solid slab, and the scalloped border carries light all the way around the outline so the shape holds its definition against hair or skin. The bright unbroken bezel is what makes the blue read as blue instead of washing out, and it armors the edge of a stone far softer than most buyers expect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese swing freely on the hooks and move with the head, light enough for all day wear. Arrives packaged and ready to gift or add to your collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVerifications:\u003cbr\u003eSterling silver has been verified using JSP Silver Testing Solution.\u003cbr\u003eTurquoise has been verified using a Presidium Gem Tester II.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDetails:\u003cbr\u003eDesigner: Shube's Manufacturing\u003cbr\u003eOrigin: Albuquerque New Mexico\u003cbr\u003eMetal: Sterling Silver\u003cbr\u003eHallmarks: Shube's Maker's Mark, STERLING\u003cbr\u003eStone: Turquoise\u003cbr\u003eStone Cut: Oval Cabochon\u003cbr\u003eSetting Style: Bezel\u003cbr\u003eDesign: Southwest Teardrop\u003cbr\u003eEarring Style: Drop Dangle\u003cbr\u003eEar Wire: French Hook\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Excellent estate condition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFun Facts:\u003cbr\u003eShube's Manufacturing built hand crafted silver jewelry in Albuquerque, New Mexico for more than thirty years before being acquired by the Hoeweler Group of Cincinnati and renamed Shube's Inc., joining the same family of companies as South Dakota Gold, the longstanding icon of the Black Hills gold category.\u003cbr\u003eNew Mexico sits on one of the oldest turquoise mining districts in North America at Cerrillos, worked by Ancestral Puebloan peoples centuries before European contact, with stone from those mines turning up in trade goods as far south as central Mexico.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shube's Manufacturing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52908791300461,"sku":null,"price":79.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0972\/8272\/0109\/files\/Vintage_Shube_Sterling_Silver_Southwest_Teardrop_Drop_Dangle_Earrings_with_Oval_Turquoise_Cabochons.jpg?v=1791686837","url":"https:\/\/silverqueenstudio.com\/products\/vintage-shube-sterling-silver-turquoise-southwest-teardrop-drop-dangle-earrings","provider":"Silver Queen Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}