Bond Boyd Vintage Sterling Silver & Amethyst Earrings

These Delicate and Tasteful 'Circular' design Vintage Sterling Silver Earrings are hand crafted and are stamped BOND BOYD STERLING. Each earring has three graduating circles containing five pale amethyst round cut and bezel set stones and is crowned at the top with a larger round cut and prong set dark amethyst stone. They were manufactured by this company in Toronto about 1950-1960.

COMMENT: These tastefully designed earrings are definitely designed with the corporate woman in mind. Simple, elegant and tasteful are three words that describe these lovely hand crafted earrings.

HISTORY OF BOND BOYD 

Many jewelry dealers who have researched jewelry have not arrived with much accurate information about Bond Boyd. Some jewelry researchers seem to say that the company was out of business around 1991. Such is not the case.  The real history of BOND BOYD is that it began in 1940 in Toronto, Ontario and is still presently in business. It was always a family run business that had hired out various designers and had perfected many smaller pieces of dainty jewelry that were designed and quality controlled with the corporate woman in mind. Most of the gems used were small semi precious stones that were usually “round” cut and were either “bezel” set or “prong” set. Many of their pieces were worked in a medium of “sterling”. Some of the sterling pieces had a gold wash applied over the sterling base which is known as “gold lemay” or “vermeil”. This, over the process of time and amount of usage, had a tendency to become dull or show the sterling bleeding through. However some of Bond Boyd pieces were actually 22Kt. or 24Kt. gold plated over a sterling base metal.

CONDITION: Excellent!