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MIDNIGHT Museum Turquoise The Rare Stuff!! V intage S anta F e E legance ! Amazing Rare GEM TIFFANY BLUE Turquoise!! from the famous Cerrillos, New Mexico Ancient Mines. Sante Fe Artisan Made Sterling Silver Pendant Expertly Crafted Frame Bezel Unique Hand Made Setting and Style Traditional Bezel Design in Sterling Silver A VERY AMAZING PIECE OF TURQUOISE!! This has to be one of the finest examples of "TIFFANY BLUE" Turquoise . Clear Blue the same Color as the Tiffany BOX! So what came first the Box or the STONE?? .This is Quite a Collectors Piece for SURE!! Cerrillos
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. Hallmarked .925 Total Drop is 51mm x 29mm Wide 12mm x 8mm Bale Opening Stone is a Baroque Hand Cut Cabochon in a Smooth Wide Oval Cabochon 42mm x 28mm with a 8mm High DOME 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" GEM, TIFFANY BLUE Turquoise, this stone is from a Very Old Stash, and has Very Unique Qualites with VERY UNIQUE ATTRIBUTES. Beautiful Stone not often seen today!! Wonderful Cochiti Silver Smithing and a Very Old Piece, some 85 years OLD Sturdy Silver Smithing and a Very Rare Stone Stunning High Polished Sterling Silver and Native American Artisan Hand Made!! Hall Marked .925 We have been asked so Often is the Stones we Offer are Treated, Stabilized or Natural. With the Vintage Stones, they were cut and polished long before the contemporary process of cold pressed resin stabilizing began. Stabilizing changes the color of the original stone, which dimishes the Value. So We are not Fans of that!!. We do repolish just as in the old days, with Several types of Grits and Clear Rouge Wax. This is not Enhancing or Stabilizing. They are Natural and Polished!! Santa Fe Estate Lot Jewelry Santa Fe has a magic about it. Since the Turn ...
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