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These drop earrings feature classic teardrops of vintage Dodge fordite, smoothly bezel set in sterling silver and finished with a simple hook (also sterling silver). The earrings measure 44mm from the top of the hook to the bottom by 16mm across. The fordite is a well matched pair with a pattern of diagonal stripes in shades of orange, white and blue with some yellow and dark green sneaking in at the edges. The blue, silver and dark green sparkle (I've done my best to capture this in the photos). Comes gift boxed.

Fordite is the name given to many layers of cured car paint that builds up in spray booths at car factories. The paint gets baked hard in between each layer leading to a durable material that can be cut to show off the many colours. This particular material I have matched to the colour charts for Dodge in 1970 (yellow and orange are unusual colours so useful for matching to charts, the yellow is 'top banana' whilst the orange is rather more boringly called 'orange'). I cut this material myself so if you love fordite but want something else making drop me a message. Vintage fordite is becoming increasingly hard to source and thanks to more efficient painting processes less fordite in general is being formed so if you love your cars get some of the unique material whilst you can.