This unique color is known to symbolize luck, peace, and protection. Photo by Emily Melissa Photo Bold, vibrant, and unique, turquoise is a distinct color known to bring luck, peace, and protection ... This turquoise and aqua chiffon dress is labeled "Will Steinman Original," When a designer whose work was featured in Vogue during the mid-1950s.

Understanding the Context

Another label reads "Lady Hamilton, Arlington, VA," ... A quick introduction: According to Durango Silver Company, "Chinese turquoise accounts for over 60% of the stones sold in the United States, due to the scarcity of American turquoise. Chinese turquoise can be just as beautiful as American turquoise, “In fact, China seemed to produce the highest amount of spiderweb turquoise thus far. I have noticed a ton of listings on eBay, Etsy etc.for “genuine” Navajo pieces with the hallmark QT 925 - mostly offered for way less than “real” identifiable pieces.

Key Insights

eg. “Beautiful QT Sterling QUAC (New Mexico)” “coral, turquoise, onyx inlay” etc. Many listings say the pieces are from Quoc Turquoise Inc. - but I can’t find anything to say whether these pieces were made by ... The small mine, outside Austin NV, produced turquoise, faucite and variscite, sometime from the same vein.

Final Thoughts

Turquoise and variscite are closely related but chemically different. How to ID Lander Blue? - Identifying & Discovering - Turquoise People Aside from the turquoise, the silverwork is very unusual, to the extent that I’m puzzled about the origins of the urn-like (headdress?) appliques and the floaty leaves on the naja, not fixed in place as you’d expect. It almost looks like it was gussied up (added onto) from a more typical necklace, versus being made originally as it appears now. The free form shaped stone on the left is usually a Navajo made giveaway. Plus, coral and turquoise is found made by both Navajo & Zuni artists, but definitely favored to the Navajo.

Zuni left, Navajo right. The Navajo piece is easy to identify, big, heavy, and a nice free form shaped stone.