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Stabilized turquoise is turquoise that has been filled with clear resin so it holds together. There's nothing wrong with that, as long as it's called what it is. Here is what the process does, what it doesn't do, and what...
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Natural, stabilized, enhanced, composite, block. A turquoise seller can use every one of these words on one table, and they don't always mean the same thing from one table to the next. Here is how we use them, in three...
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In early September 1922 the first Southwest Indian Fair opened in Santa Fe, which Ryan and Chambless place narrowly ahead of Gallup's first Inter-Tribal Ceremonial; in 1962 it became Indian Market, where jewelry grew into the predominant category. [2] In...
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Gallup, New Mexico, was where the reservation's silverwork was sold on to the rest of the country. The town's mercantile companies supplied the trading posts, and by the late 1930s the work of hundreds of smiths came through Gallup to...
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The turquoise mosaics of ancient Mexico survive mainly as museum-held objects taken to Europe during the conquest. What Joseph E. Pogue's 1915 study recorded about them, with page numbers.
