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- Identifying Your Navajo, Hopi, Zuni Jewelry, Plus Maker
The free form shaped stone on the left is usually a Navajo made giveaway Plus, coral and turquoise is found made by both Navajo Zuni artists, but definitely favored to the Navajo Zuni left, Navajo right The Navajo piece is easy to identify, big, heavy, and a nice free form shaped stone
- Cleaning Turquoise and silver jewlery
Turquoise and malachite will absorb liguids if the turquoise is not “stablilzed” (Impregnated with plastic resins) and can be damaged by cleaners For these stones it is best to use a soft toothbrush and warm water to clean and dry immediately The same goes for shell material
- Latest topics - Turquoise People
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- Identifying Squash Blossom Necklace - Value Opinions - Turquoise People
Production piecework handmade squash, using fairly low quality stabilized turquoise stones Likely Navajo Commercially produced standard bench beads This piece was likely made along with a batch order of several other nearly identical pieces The workmanship is very good, especially for a sqash of this type The silversmith was a professional and it shows in the work 9 Likes Cheryl
- Turquoise pendant hallmarked LL
The turquoise pendant is nice, but pretty generic in terms of the style No telling who made it or where it was made The comment about block lettering stamps is on the money Without provenance, the maker and even country of origin remains anyone’s guess
- Reworking a bolo into a pendant-looking for opinions!
@tepowell Beautiful turquoise I think its current sterling setting is ideal for it That being said, I agree with @chicfarmer about considering to wear it as a bolo tie I wear my bolo ties more like a necklace and never tighten them all the way up I understand that may not work for you In any case, it would definitely make for a pretty pendant
- Lovato Ring with Damaged Turquoise - Value Opinions - Turquoise People
I have a gorgeous Julian Lovato turquoise ring that unfortunately has damage to the turquoise The stone is firmly in there - nothing moves, so the damage is mostly cosmetic The damage consists of a crack and chip I tried to get photos of this My question is, does it still hold value as a Julian Lovato piece even with the damaged turquoise? I’m not even sure what type of turquoise it is
- Help? Squash Blossom Necklace - Turquoise People
The turquoise is inexpensive treated stone, probably Kingman, and at the time would have been considered near bottom shelf in terms of price and quality These were usually delivered unstrung, with the stringing taking place in the shop or trading company which commissioned the work
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