Double Nail Drop Earrings in 18k Yellow Gold

The drop earrings is made of 18k yellow gold and nail heads are set in hand-made prongs. The 1790s-1820s iron nails in these earrings are from my dad’s barn in Brooks, ME. As the building fell down he would separate the nails from the wood, which he chopped up for kindling.After years of collecting he sent them all to me for our first collaborative jewelry project. This type of nail was the first to be machine made, but it was still slow and laborious since strips of iron were fed into the machine manually and the nails cut one at a time.

Dimensions: 1" long