Genuine Turquoise & Sterling Silver Pendant Necklace 2817-PN
Genuine Turquoise & Sterling Silver Pendant Necklace.
This exquisite pendant is all about the Turquoise. It showcases a hand cut genuine Turquoise cabochon with a thin band of Sterling Silver wrapped around the Turquoise on its edge. This allows the beauty of both the front and back of the gorgeous sky blue Turquoise cab to be visible. This pendant reveals the natural beauty of the Turquoise stone like no other, and you can follow the swirls and matrix to the other side of the stone where the patterns are repeated. The band of Sterling Silver comes together at the top with a Sterling Silver bail. Quality stones, often with a subtle spider web matrix have been selected for this all-Turquoise design. Turquoise and Sterling Silver, a traditional combination with which you can't go wrong. Suspended from a complimentary chain, this fine piece of Turquoise jewelry is about 1-1/2" long. Shapes and matrix of the Turquoise will vary slightly, you will receive one from the group of Turquoise pendants pictured below.
Turquoise is a highly sought-after mineral and is possibly the most valuable, non-transparent mineral in the jewelry trade. It has been mined for eons since at least 6000 BC by early Egyptians. Today, it is more popular than ever and its use around the world is prolific. The finest turquoise comes from Iran but is challenged by stone found in the southwestern United States. The name comes from a French word, which means stone of Turkey, from where Persian material passed on its way to Europe. Certain Native Americans called turquoise "Chal-cui-hui-tal", meaning "the highest and most valued thing in the world". The Navajo believe turquoise is a piece of the sky that has fallen to earth, and it is used as an offering to appease the wind. The Zuni believe that blue turquoise was male and of the sky and green turquoise was female and of the earth. The Zuni, along with many other Native American groups, believed the stone could help protect them from demons or help a person feel intuitively the difference between good and evil as well as protect against accidents and various dangers. To actually see a bright blue nugget of Turquoise on the otherwise gray and dusty desert floor is to know the incredible nature of this stone and will lead anyone to realize what the Native Americans have known to be true for millennia - that Turquoise is special, sacred, and has power. |