Jewelry- Are these even vintage?

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I need help with dating these pieces. I'm not even sure if they are vintage at all.
The pendant, I believe, is lead crystal. The stone is glued and the metal looks like chrome????
Butterfly brooch is enameled copper. I'm not familiar with the different types of enameling, so I can't help there.
And the earrings are (I think) celluloid, front made to look like tortoise shell with gold flakes, the back made to look like ivory.
Any information would help.
Thanks so much,
Elisha
 
I agree with Mary Jane and Nicole that the butterfly is perhaps the only vintage piece. Counter enameling (ie on the reverse of the brooch) was often done on 50s/60s copper pieces, but the way the actual butterly on the front is done is later (70s, as Mary Jane suggests, seems right to me!)

The earrings aren't celluloid but probably some sort of acrylic-based plastic. Celluloid is an early plastic, widely used in jewelry before Bakelite became popular. I don't think I've ever seen a pair of celluloid earrings (maybe Linn, our resident jewelry expert, will come along to describe any examples she's come across), but certainly they would have had screwbacks, not modern looking posts such as on your pair!
 
I agree that the only older piece is the butterfly but without actually handling it, I'm not sure how old it is.

Carrie - I think I have a couple of examples of celluloid earrings. The ones shown are not celluloid. I have some slightly later ones that are called celluloid that are clips but I think are celluloid acetate - I'll have to look for a photo of them.

I think these are celluloid - they are screwbacks:

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