1960’s La Roca Vintage White & Purple Cluster Clip On Earrings

1960’s La Roca white and purple glass cluster clip on earrings they are still on the original card. The beads have a light rainbow effect AB glaze, silver tone back signed La Roca. The white beads are glass, purple is not. Perfect condition History: William O. Ross was born around 1891. His family immigrated from Moscow, Russia. It is recorded that he was in Seattle in 1906. In 1920, he was a salaried public accountant, likely for the company he founded. By 1940 he had been president of his namesake wholesale jewelry company for some time. Mr. Ross passed away in 1969 in Seattle and is buried there. A number of employment ads reveal that the company was viable through the 1960s. The LaRoco trademark expired in 1971; presumably the company ceased operations about that time. As Layko Ross & Company was a wholesaler, it isn’t surprising to see jewelry with the LaRoco cartouche that clearly was made by another company. The LaRoco mark is seen on DeLizza & Elster jewelry and SELRO.