BOLD Southwestern Style Pendant Sterling Silver High Grade Bisbee Turquoise with a free 20” chain
Weight with chain: 24g in total
Dimension of stones: 1.0” x 1.5”
Dimension of pendant with bale: 1.0” x 1.5”
Diameter of bale ring: 6mm
Wire wrapped pendant with 18” chain
Slight discoloration spots scattered. Some excessive glue left on the back side of the stone.
Very fine chocolate color texture forms beautiful spider web across the gemstones blue, porcelain-like surfaces. Rare find, high grade Bisbee turquoise gemstones. I will be auctioning many vintage jewelry items acquired from a self storage auction in the coming weeks. Please checkout my other auctions.
We purchased a huge lot of jewelry boxes with jewelries in them in 2017 in a self-storage auction. We need to sell some of them in order to raise fund to pay gemological evaluations for the rest of them.
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Bisbee turquoise developed an astonishing reputation as a hard, brilliant blue stone of really high quality. The turquoise mineral comes in many different shades of blue with reddish-brown spider-webbing, wisps or veils throughout the stone, which is referred for its unique “Smoky” matrix pattern. This unique “Smoky” pattern is only found on the turquoise gem stones that are mined from Bisbee. The minerals that come from different turquoise mines in Arizona are often uniquely different in shape and color. For an example the turquoise that comes from the southeast part of Arizona has an unusual matrix or black pyrite that often looks like silver when polished. While turquoise mining, the mineral has also been found in many different colors with a beautiful dark green turquoise color being one of them.