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This pair of earrings are probably the best I've seen; handmade by Robert Dhaemers; ca. 1940s; sterling with greenish-blue quartz; screwbacks; each is approximately 1-1/2" long x 1-1/8" wide; great patina; fine condition. SOLD (item #M950) 
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In a note sent to me by Robert Dhaemers, he speaks of the earrings: "The earrings are some of my earliest work. I made them when I was a student and sold them to an art student who lost one. She came back to me and asked me to make another one so I did, but she never came back to pick them up so they hung on my work bench wall since 1946 or 1947. The stones I cut and polished and are a form of quartz." Robert Dhaemers (b. 1926), was Assistant Professor in Crafts at the California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, California and taught for ten years at Mills College. His exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts in New York City included "Creative Casting Thirty Craftsmen" and "Art of Personal Adornment." He also exhibited at Columbia University, New York; Addison Gallery of American Art, de Young Museum and Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; Oakland and San Francisco Art Museum; St. Paul Gallery, University of Minnesota; University of California; University of Iowa, and numerous others. He is a sculptor who has created over dozen large sculptural works on commission. He interprets his sculptural ideas in his jewelry, feeling that it should be seen in the round: his pendants are designed to stand alone as three-dimensional sculpture. He works mostly in lost-wax casting and credits Bob Winston as his inspiration. He exhibited a cast sterling ring in 1955 at the Walker Art Center. (from my book, Modernist Jewelry, 1930-1960, The Wearable Art Movement, pg. 137-38)
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