Amethyst earns its place in two separate gifting frameworks: February birthstone and the traditional 6th anniversary stone. The occasions and symbolic logic are different, and yet both traditions arrived at the same purple quartz.
Care & Keeping
Fine jewelry posts are produced in a consistent standard gauge, which means a universally sized replacement clutch back from a jewelry counter will fit virtually all of them.
Made With Purpose
A friction back, also called a butterfly or push back, is the earring back you've seen your whole life. It has two spring-tension wings on a small metal body that grip the post when pressed on. With no locking mechanism, tension does all of the work.