Initial charm necklaces are worn by women around the world as a way to express themselves or honor the important moments and people in their lives. When layering necklaces, our gold letter necklace’s twisty chains make sure that they don’t get lost in even the most whimsical necklace stack. Hope this information helps even though it’s not super accurate.Our letter pendants are bold enough to be worn as standalone statement gold initial necklaces yet dainty enough to be layered in a set with our book necklace or book bracelet. Taking the age of all the other pieces I HAVE identified from this same lot, I would roughly guess it was made 1940’s-1950’s. As far as a date or age of the piece or designer… that’s tough. It was melted together, then sanded on both the face and rear as well as the joints… again this shows much older practices. The cross itself was 3 pieces put together, the long center portion and two short sides. The ring that a necklace would go through has rough cuts and was pinched together, again not modern technology. The hole in this cross was not drilled by modern technology. The vast majority of the pieces I bought are from Italy… so I’m loosely guessing it came from Italy. The fact that all the pieces in my purchase are very old tells me this piece is also very old (which is why we can’t find anything online about C.T.). In this case it’s a designer as it’s clearly not a big manufacturer. Sterling is fairly obvious and means the metal alloy used to make the piece is 92.5% Silver. One of the crosses is stamped “STERLING C.T.”. I just bought a storage unit and found LOTS of vintage and antique jewelry. So if you’ve got something in your ring that doesn’t make sense, either ask the jeweler that you bought it from, take it to an antique dealer (they got a good eye for this), or leave it in the comments below, and maybe someone else will know. (They do sell jeweler’s hallmark stamp books that lists many of the more popular ones, and it could help you.) There’s no official list anywhere that people can put their identifying marks on, so everyone would know. In reality, you’ll probably never know what exactly happened or what it is. Plus, keep in mind that the ring stamp may have not been hit hard enough? Maybe only a portion of the actual stamp (like the 4K shown in the image) made it to the ring? Or, maybe some of the letters or numbers got rubbed away by normal wear and tear? Maybe they were polished out? Maybe the ring was repaired or sized and the letters got cut out? That’s also why I started another post for unidentified jewelry stamps, to keep track of them all and to allow others to help identify these crazy letters, symbols and numbers… It could be endless searching for the right RS. The “ RS” I used as an example could refer to Richard Scott, Robin Starling, Ralph Sherlock, Raymond Stores… or whomever. With 7.4 billion people on Earth, and with thousands and thousands of designers, jewelry stores and manufacturers, it’s easy to see that the initials and letters and numbers could be anything: It’s meaningful to me, and I can identify my own work, but it’s not very helpful to anyone else. It’s like me putting “ RS” inside a band.
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