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Navajo Royston Turquoise & Tourmaline Bracelet

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:150.00 - 300.00 USD
Navajo Royston Turquoise & Tourmaline Bracelet
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For your bidding pleasure is this Navajo Royston Ribbon Turquoise & Tourmaline Bracelet. This bracelet has a tourmaline stone centered on the back between two Royson Ribbon Turquoise stones. This bracelet is stamped sterling with a makers mark for Etta Endito. Etta and Randy Endito have been silver smithing together since 1980. Etta, from Crownpoint, and Randy, from Smith Lake, New Mexico met in 1978. Traditionally Tourmaline jewelry was given as funeral gifts by Native Americans. The first documented case was in 1890 when Charles Russel Orcutt found pink tourmaline at what later became the Stewart Mine at Pala, San Diego County. The measurements of this bracelet are 2 1/4" x 2 1/2" x 7/8"