CLAUDETTE Rhodium-plated Charcoal Grey Moonglow Thermoset 'Lucite' selling Necklace & Matching Clip-on Earrings, Vintage 1950s

Here is a truly stylish choker necklace & matching clip-on earrings, dating from the mid-1950s, featuring delicate wavy leaves of charcoal grey Lucite, set into a bright silvertone Rhodium-plated setting. The grey stones are made of the thermoset plastic known as 'Moonglow Lucite' for its light-bending properties, which was massively popular at the time.

NECKLACE:
The necklace measures 39cms - 42cms long, which is 15 3/8" - 16 1/2" and is adjustable due to the extender chain, which carries a little silvertone peardrop hangtag. See my last two photos for the shortest and longest lengths. The grey Lucite leaf sections carry two leaves each and measure 2.5cms long (1") There is a teensy bit of plating loss in certain areas, around the signature in particular, and the chain at each end. This doesn't detract from the beauty when being worn though.

EARRINGS:
The clip-on earrings measure 3.2cms long x 3cms wide and consist of four grey Lucite leaves splayed round in a fan shape - a really beautiful design, and these look brand new !! Clearly the earrings have never been worn.

This is a gorgeous design, which would look beautiful with any vintage 1950s or 1960s print, in any colour - try this with pinks / purple shades, or maybe greeny-blues and aquas perhaps. It's so stylish a design that this would lift any outfit from casual to smart, or from ordinary to elegant in a second.
This would look fabulous with any cocktail dress, vintage or otherwise - the delicate curved Lucite leaves and the shiny rhodium combine together to make a thoroughly stunning two piece demi-parure.

CLAUDETTE
Claudette jewellery was made by Premier Jewellery Co. Inc. based in New York. This company seems to have started life in 1945 and is generally believed to have gone out of business around the mid-late 1950s. Therefore their jewellery is reasonably uncommon, and certain designs are pretty rare. Their jewellery is stamped with the selling name 'Claudette' or "Claudette' with a copyright symbol. The copyright symbol was widely used after the 1955 court case between Trifari and the Charel Jewellery company, over an infringement of a patented design. Therefore we can probably date this particular set to around then or shortly afterwards. The Claudette brand doesn't seem to have existed after 1960 anyway.