FREE: Beautiful Blue Bird Turquoise In Sterling 925

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Navajo silversmith Melvin Francis makes a variety of earring styles for the Trading Post. He tells us,"
One of the most common problems for consumers is the enormous amount of dyed Howlite being sold. Because of the veining, it can be very hard to tell if you are getting real turquoise or an inexpensive stone like Howlite that has been dyed to look like turquoise." So basically if you find a stone called "Sleeping Beauty" and it's being passed off as turquoise, it in fact is just dyed Howlite, but it's much more common because of the lack of real/ natural turquoise left....

This set is a lightweight set of a beautiful turquoise called"Blue Bird Turquoise" a much more expensive stone than most other types of the stone. I was heading to Arizona and bought it from an old Navajo woman and it had a black shoe lace around it to wear. I had a welder friend of mine put on the backs to the earrings and I put an 18 inch Sterling Silver,Italian rope chain on it and... VIOLA!

Natural turquoise is hard to find - there is hardly any natural turquoise on the market today. Turquoise is a soft stone (between a 5-6 on the Moh's Scale of Hardness) and can be real susceptible to scratching and even fracturing and over time, it can fade, change color or stain due to the absorption of oils from the skin and coming into constant contact with the elements when worn. Because of these two problems, turquoise has been treated with waxes and oils, something that has been going on for thousands of years.

Less than 3% of all the turquoise on the market worldwide is natural~~

That in mind... I'll pay to ship, ins,handl
e, and track...if you bid generously, with no asking for changes on my auction or boobing!!!!!! Good Luck! xoxoxoxoxoxooxo