Sterling Silver Turquoise Five Strand Necklace Hook and Eye Set.

This set is for all of you artists and crafters out there. This is a hook and eye set thats meant to be put on the ends of your hand strung 5 strand necklaces. This pair has been dressed with hand cut stones of genuine sleeping beauty blue, Turquoise. This hook and eye set has a lost wax design made from a very heavy gauge of Sterling Silver with a generous portion of Turquoise. These quality findings are meant for your high end, high fashion pieces of jewelry. These necklace ends are 7/8" wide.

Turquoise has been, since about 200 B.C., extensively used by southwestern U.S Native Americans and by many of the Indian tribes in Mexico. The Native American Jewelry or "Indian style" jewelry with turquoise mounted in or with silver is relatively new. Some believe this style of Jewelry was unknown prior to about 1880, when a white trader persuaded a Navajo craftsman to make turquoise and silver jewelry using coin silver. Prior to this time, the Native Americans had made solid turquoise beads, carvings, and inlaid mosaics. Recently, turquoise has found wide acceptance among people of all walks of life and from many different ethnic groups.