I've just found the world's most disgusting earrings

[Time40]

Don't look if you are of a nervous disposition. They're just wrong ... and so expensive, too.

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/294780833782?hash=item44a24e8ff6:g:~GoAAOSwO~JhvHoj

[quote WestendVBroadway]@Time40, I see your beetle earrings , and raise you these 3 beauties. The last ones definitely beat yours in the hideous stakes.[/quote]
Yeah all of these are worse

Not earrings, but I lived in South America for a while in the 1970s and saw several people wearing these brooches:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_insect_jewelry

My mind had gone to someone’s gallstones as ear bobs, to be honest. Whilst the scarabs wouldn’t be my choice, I can imagine worse

[quote Justkeepon]@WestendVBroadway you WIN 🏆[/quote]
Yup.

People trying to claim the earrings are fine are such attention seekers 😂 they're grim as

@intheblightgarden

People trying to claim the earrings are fine are such attention seekers 😂 they're grim as

I mean, they’re grim but they’re not ‘nervous disposition’ needs a sensitivity filter grim

I've got a scarab ring, brooch and bracelet - I've never worn them but they were really fashionable in Edwardian era

Left by my great grandmother

I saw these on etsy years back, I was disappointed to miss out on them to be honest, got a bit of a thing for weird (ugly) jewellery

@WestendVBroadway those properly made me guffaw with laughter.

Yes not for me thank you very much.

I'm a jeweller and we receive worn earrings to repair/alter or match to a new one. Loads of them have so much wax/dirt in them. that is super-gross!!

@WestendVBroadway

Yes, those three pairs are bad. Really bad. But worse .... hmmm. Personally, I think we have a tie.

But a scarab, is not a stone. Surely it is saying that the scarabs are made from natural stone

Exactly - scarab is not a stone. So if they were natural stone, the seller wouldn't have said "scarab".

But worse than all our non-living earrings - live insect jewellery!! What?? That's horrible I'm going to have nightmares now. It reminds me of the film Cronos - a great film with a very disturbing piece of live insect sort-of jewellery.

@Time40, I have to admit that having looked at the link that @LaMarschallin provided, it does it indeed look like there are real beetles in the jewelry . My apologies to you. I still think my examples are worse though 😌

Oh god. Well that was way more gross than I was expecting. The foot ones are also pretty grim.

Surely live insect jewellery wouldn't last long?

WestendVBroadway

having looked at the link that LaMarschallin provided, it does it indeed look like there are real beetles in the jewelry

The ones I saw irl were indeed live black beetles - cockroach-sized - with a jewel glued to their backs but not so ornately decorated as the ones in the link. The jewel was connected to a small gold safety pin by a gold chain. Whoever was wearing it fastened the pin to their top and the beetle crawled around on them.

JaneJeffer

Surely live insect jewellery wouldn't last long?

A friend of my mother had one and it lived in a small box with a small piece of something that looked a bit like cotton wool that it fed on, apparently. I saw her wearing it a couple of times a week or so apart, but don't know how long it lived altogether.

[quote WestendVBroadway]@Time40, I see your beetle earrings , and raise you these 3 beauties. The last ones definitely beat yours in the hideous stakes.[/quote]
Holy moly they are shudder

I like antique jewellery and I think they are really fascinating and look good.

I didn't think rats' feet were as hairy ?
I don't think my guinea-pigs would've wanted their paws imortalised forever from my earlobes ........

Though seriously , the teeth ones are The Worst !

Oh this is hideous!! I have some very old Egyptian scarab jewellery… made from turquoise and gold, not an actual scarab!! Too gross.

This thread made me chuckle out loud, thank you OP the look of those earrings alone give me the heebie jeebies shudder

Can I interest anyone in some earrings made from dog penis bones? Or maybe a dead crow's claw necklace?

@Loservilla

Can I interest anyone in some earrings made from dog penis bones? Or maybe a dead crow's claw necklace?

There’s using found dead animals parts to make jewellery (which I don’t agree with) but then there’s the nagging possibility that these animals are farmed

[quote WestendVBroadway]@Time40, I see your beetle earrings , and raise you these 3 beauties. The last ones definitely beat yours in the hideous stakes.[/quote]
Westend are they squirrels' feet rather than rats ?

I haven't kept pet rats but I've seen some and marvelled at their little paws . The claws look too long and point-ey too .

Squirrels are classed as rodents too , but it's quite sad they look like red squirrel , but could be ancient ones .
(Still wouldn't wear them though )

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