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Let’s Talk Earrings!
Earrings continue to be a strong fashion trend. High quality earrings allow for an affordable, quick, and easy way to “accessorize” any outfit.
For the past year, earrings have been the fastest moving finished jewelry item for many of our customers. All of the virtual meetings, Facetime and Zoom gatherings allowed everyone to wear sweatpants at home and to put their focus on making a statement with their earrings.
This post highlights the earring findings that we offer. If you missed the “Let’s Talk Earwires” you might enjoy this previous post on our Nunn Design Blog.
Nunn Design has several options of nickel-free plated earrings. Let’s break them down into the following categories so we can “talk earrings.”
- Post earrings with brass bezels plated with precious metals.
- Post earrings with cast pewter bezels plated with precious metals.
- Wire hoops with brass bezels earrings plated with precious metals.
- Posts cast pewter plated with precious metals.
- Posts with brass bars plated with precious metals.
- Post hoop earrings plated with precious metals.
Here we go! Let Talk Earrings! Click on any of the images to link to more detailed information and to shop the Nunn Design Website.
Post Earrings with Brass Bezels
Nunn Design Post Earrings with Brass Bezels are created in the USA. Here is what you will want to know and share with your customers on the manufacturing process of these earring findings.
- The brass for the bezels are made in the USA. Although the brass is imported, because we machine stamp and form the bezels within the USA, we are able to claim that these are all made in the USA.
- Once cleaned, the brass bezels have a stainless steel post soldered onto the back of the brass bezel using lead-free solder.
- All posts are sleeved with a rubber protection to prevent the stainless steel from being exposed to precious metals while plating.
- Next, the earrings are cleaned and plated nickel-free in the USA with precious imported metals. Copper, 24k gold and .999 silver.
- Rubber sleeves are then removed from the stainless steel post.
- Post earrings are quality controlled counted and packaged into easy to purchase quantities.
- Included in each package of post earrings, we include USA made stainless steel butterfly clutches.
Post Earrings with Cast Pewter Bezels
- Bezels for these post earrings are cast in the USA with imported lead-free pewter.
- Cast pewter bezels are cleaned and a stainless steel post is soldered onto the back of the bezel using lead-free solder.
- All posts are sleeved with a rubber protection to prevent the stainless steel from being exposed to precious metals while plating.
- Next, the earrings are cleaned and plated nickel-free in the USA with precious imported metals. Copper, 24k gold and .999 silver.
- Rubber sleeves are then removed from the stainless steel post.
- Post earrings are quality controlled counted and packaged into easy to purchase quantities
- Included in each package of post earrings, we include USA made stainless steel butterfly clutches.
Wire Hoops with Brass Bezels
- The brass for the bezels are made in the USA. Although the brass is imported, because we machine stamp and form the bezels within the USA, we are able to claim that these are all made in the USA.
- Once cleaned, the brass bezels have a brass wire hoop soldered onto the back of the brass bezel using lead-free solder.
- Next, the earrings are cleaned and plated nickel-free in the USA with precious imported metals. Copper, 24k gold and .999 silver.
- Earrings are quality controlled counted and packaged into easy to purchase quantities.
Posts Earrings Cast Pewter
- The decorative design part of these post earrings are cast in the USA with imported lead-free pewter.
- Cast pewter is cleaned and a stainless steel post is soldered onto the back of the pewter using lead-free solder.
- All posts are sleeved with a rubber protection to prevent the stainless steel from being exposed to precious metals while plating.
- Next, the earrings are cleaned and plated nickel-free in the USA with precious imported metals. Copper, 24k gold and .999 silver.
- Rubber sleeves are then removed from the stainless steel post.
- Earrings are quality controlled counted and packaged into easy to purchase quantities
- Included in each package of post earrings, we include USA made stainless steel butterfly clutches.
Posts with Brass Bars
- The brass for the brass bars are made in the USA. Although the brass is imported, because we machine stamp and form the bezels within the USA, we are able to claim that these are all made in the USA.
- Once cleaned, the brass bars have a stainless steel post soldered onto the back of the brass bezel using lead-free solder.
- All posts are sleeved with a rubber protection to prevent the stainless steel from being exposed to precious metals while plating.
- Next, the earrings are cleaned and plated nickel-free in the USA with precious imported metals. Copper, 24k gold and .999 silver.
- Rubber sleeves are then removed from the stainless steel post.
- Earrings are quality controlled counted and packaged into easy to purchase quantities
- Included in each package of post earrings, we include USA made stainless steel butterfly clutches.
Post Hoop Earrings
- The brass and bezels for these post hoop earrings are made in the USA. Although the brass is imported, because we machine stamp and form the bezels within the USA, we are able to claim that these are all made in the USA.
- Once cleaned, the brass hoops have a stainless steel post soldered onto the the brass hoops using lead-free solder.
- All posts are sleeved with a rubber protection to prevent the stainless steel from being exposed to precious metals while plating.
- Next, the earrings are cleaned and plated nickel-free in the USA with precious imported metals. Copper, 24k gold and .999 silver.
- Rubber sleeves are then removed from the stainless steel post.
- Earrings are quality controlled counted and packaged into easy to purchase quantities
- Included in each package of post earrings, we include USA made stainless steel butterfly clutches.
Oh my! A lot to talk about, right? We sell a lot of earrings because we provide a high quality product within the fashion industry. We take great pride in being able to offer these USA Made findings.
Let’s Talk Series:
We hope that you will use this series as a resource when preparing the copy to describe your own jewelry made from Nunn Design Findings. It is becoming more and more important to be completely transparent with how and where your jewelry is being made. Consumers want to be aware of what they are purchasing and who they are supporting. It is our jobs to provide correcting information and descriptions.
To review other posts in this series, here is what we have talked about:
- Let’s Talk Jumprings!
- Let’s Talk Earwires!
- Let’s Talk Beads!
- Let’s Talk Charms!
- Let’s Talk Bezels!
- Let’s Talk Open Bezels!
- Let’s Talk Metal Stamping Flat Tags!
- Let’s Talk Rings!
- Let’s Talk Chain!
- Let’s Talk Earrings!
- Let’s Talk Bracelets!
- Let’s Talk Clasps & Closures!
- Let’s Talk Beadcaps!
Thanks again for joining us!
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