What your seeing here is the Coro Empire line. My mother sent these to me for Christmas as they were part of my Grandmother collection. Only knowing they were Coro I started the great hunt of what it was and yes there has to be earrings and I wanted to know what they looked like. Here is the set I received.
And low and behold I found pay dirt (see the ad below ) The Empire necklace shown in the top row, right side of the ad below (from the November 29, 1954 issue of Life Magazine) cost $5, and the matching earrings were also $5, plus federal tax. I can tell you now my first thought was "ohhhh I wish I could time travel at those prices."
Then I found they made in it blue.
I have yet to wear it out but I did manage to put it on, and glamor it up a bit and take some photo's.
The one that did not get finished below as my app on my iPhone kept freezing as I was trying to color in the rhinestones, so I gave up on it and was able to complete the other one you see above.
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