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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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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.
How turquoise was valued, traded and worn in Tibet, Mongolia and China, quoted from Joseph E. Pogue's 1915 study with page numbers.
How turquoise was written about from ancient Egypt and Persia to the chemists of the 1800s, quoted from Joseph E. Pogue's 1915 study with page numbers.
