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- 130711-06 Navajo buckle by Carl Luthy Shop with 5 high grade Red Mountain Spiderweb Turquoise settings
130711-06 Navajo buckle by Carl Luthy Shop with 5 high grade Red Mountain Spiderweb Turquoise settings
SKU:
130711-06
$1,600.00
$1,600.00
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C. 1970
3 .27 OZ
2 1/4" x 3 1/4" Fit up to a 2" leather.
Fit up to a 2" leather.
Carl and Max Luthy, Kewa (Santo Domingo) Pueblo silversmiths, ran a jewelry shop from 1960 to 1980, and specialized with heavier style, well finished jewelry, very high quality stone settings and leaf patterns.
The Red Mountain turquoise mine produces a very fine turquoise. Known for both the high quantity of small high-grade nuggets that it produced and the beautiful dark blue spider web of its best grades. Red Mountains top material is a hard compact spider web and is equal to any of the classic turquoise mines such as Number Eight, Lone Mountain or Nevada Blue. Besides a dark blue color with a dark matrix the mine produces colors in the blue green range with a stunning gold or rust-colored spider web.
Red Mountain Nugget Located in Northern Nevada the mine was owned for many years by Austin Turner. Turner did little mining. Much of the turquoise had been mined before Turner had taken over the claim. From 1982 to 1985 Erman Blossom and his partner leased the mine and removed a fair amount of turquoise. Turner sold the mine in 2003 and today the present owner works the mine a few times a year where turquoise is still being found in the mine’s old dump.
3 .27 OZ
2 1/4" x 3 1/4" Fit up to a 2" leather.
Fit up to a 2" leather.
Carl and Max Luthy, Kewa (Santo Domingo) Pueblo silversmiths, ran a jewelry shop from 1960 to 1980, and specialized with heavier style, well finished jewelry, very high quality stone settings and leaf patterns.
The Red Mountain turquoise mine produces a very fine turquoise. Known for both the high quantity of small high-grade nuggets that it produced and the beautiful dark blue spider web of its best grades. Red Mountains top material is a hard compact spider web and is equal to any of the classic turquoise mines such as Number Eight, Lone Mountain or Nevada Blue. Besides a dark blue color with a dark matrix the mine produces colors in the blue green range with a stunning gold or rust-colored spider web.
Red Mountain Nugget Located in Northern Nevada the mine was owned for many years by Austin Turner. Turner did little mining. Much of the turquoise had been mined before Turner had taken over the claim. From 1982 to 1985 Erman Blossom and his partner leased the mine and removed a fair amount of turquoise. Turner sold the mine in 2003 and today the present owner works the mine a few times a year where turquoise is still being found in the mine’s old dump.
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