Hi joolies I got this very appealing vintage necklace on Ebay. From auction pics, I suspected the stones weren't the fake reconstituted turquoises crowding the market Some ideas for the area of mining? The mount is very well made, unmarked silver which was very tarnished, all links closed and soldered, back of stones full of grime. Anyway, very pleased with it's 75 grams comfortably laying around my neck
Beautiful, kyra. It is Chinese dragon skin/spiderweb turquoise, from Hubei province. I think it is from the Yungai (Cloud Mountain) mine, now closed. Chinese turquoise is used all over the world.
Ooh! Thank you AJ, I explored so much pages and images of turquoises identification I see blue all over now I saw Hubei turquoises too, but forgot about it Will have another look.... tomorrow
Nevada turquoise stones rarely find their way outside the US, the demand inside the US is too great. US jewellery of this period is marked. This necklace isn't marked, so not American. With more SW mines closing, even NA artists are using Chinese turquoise, and have been for a while, because Chinese turquoise resembles SW turquoise.
I hear you......& the NA artisans have been using overseas Turq for a long time now....but......I see what i see.......so please....show your examples of the Chinese stone..
https://www.etsy.com/listing/533919...=chinese turquoise cabochon&ref=sr_gallery_29 https://www.etsy.com/listing/519860...=chinese turquoise cabochon&ref=sr_gallery_33 Some info on Chinese turquoise and comparison to American turquoise: https://www.durangosilver.com/chinaturquoisemines.htm
