Vintage Santa Fe Estate CERRILLOS Turquoise Toggle BR

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Santa Fe Estate Lot Jewelry Santa Fe Gallery Retail $495.00 Rough Shot Vintage Turquoise "Old Stash" Cerrillos Turquoise Bracelet 8" Toggle Bracelet (more photos below) Silver Work is Classic "OLD WEST" This Bracelet Really Exemplifies the " Rough Shot" style of Bead Cutting the Most Unusual Vintage Stones! * Rough Shot Designs are Very Old, Stones Show they're history, and Sterling Silver is more Hand Worked. These authentic "Rough Shot" items, have not been polished out or made back to Perfect. It would take away the Historic Value of these Items. So please note that you are getting an item that shows the wear of time. Stones are all natural and show they're natural occurences and matrix. Sterling Silver is all Hand Done, so it has some Great "HAND OF THE MAKER" attributes. These types of items are sought after by our collectors more than any other category of our business. They are all very wearable ...just not slick... Amazing Rare OLD STASH Cerrillos Turquoise Turquoise!! from the Old Tiffany Mine Cerrillos Turquoise Cerrillos is not only an uncommon and unique form of native New Mexican turquoise, but has a history entwined with both ancient Native peoples of the Southwest and more recent American mining companies. Cerrillos turquoise was created and mined under unusual circumstances. It is the only turquoise that formed at the base of a volcano. Thus, a variety of colors developed from the minerals in the various volcanic host stones. In fact, seventy-five colors have been identified, from tan to khaki-green to rich, blue-green to bright and light colors. Cerrillos is a very hard stone and so takes a brilliant polish.In addition to producing a distinctive stone, the Cerrillos mine is the oldest mine of any kind in North America . Located ten miles south of Santa Fe , it was the site of the largest prehistoric mining activity on the continent because the huge turquoise deposit was partially exposed at the surface. Miners from the San Marcos Pueblo, who later moved to Santo Domingo Pueblo south of Santa Fe , most heavily worked the mine. Using only stone axes, mauls, antler picks, and chisels, Pueblo miners removed 100,000 tons of solid rock to create a pit mine 200 feet deep. They dug other vertical shafts into the ground to reach veins of turquoise. Miners carried tools and leather rock buckets on their backs as they climbed in and out of the shafts using notched logs as ladders. The turquoise obtained from this hard work traded among early peoples from Mexico to the Midwest and from the east to west coasts. In New Mexico , many pieces of Cerrillos turquoise for personal and trade use have been unearthed in the prehistoric ruins of Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon . The Pueblo peoples continued to extract turquoise from the Cerrillos mine until the 1870's when a silver mining boom raised interest in the area. The Tiffany Company in New York and its associates bought up the mine area and extracted $2,000,000 worth of turquoise between 1892 and 1899. Sante Fe Artisan Made Sterling Silver Beaded Bracelet Hand Made Sterling Wing Toggle 11- 12mm x 18mm x 5mm Hand cut Beads!! All findings .925 Sterling Silver 8" Fit Unique Hand Made Setting and Style A VERY AMAZING TURQUOISE Hallmarked .925 with Artisan Studio Mark Santo Domingo Hand Cut Beads, very unique double drilled with Hand Made Toggle! Georgeous!! From a Famous Canyon Road Vintage Collection!! Estate Lot : CR:452:ST:91.01 Santa Fe Estate Jewelry from some of the most Historic Haciendas and Collectors!! From a Famous Canyon Road Vintage Collection!! Magnificent Cut "Old Stash" Cerrillos Turquoise, this stone is from a Very Old Stash, and has Historically Unique Qualities with VERY UNIQUE ATTRIBUTES. Beautiful Stone not often seen today!! Wonderful Vintage Native American Silversmith's g and a Very Old Piece, some 70 to 80 years OLD Sturdy Silver Smith ... read more

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