Dead Pawn Kingman Turquoise & Silver signed bracelet

Dead Pawn Kingman Turquoise & Silver signed bracelet

Offered is a beautiful example of old Native American Dead Pawn Jewelry from the 1940's or 1950's signed by the artist, Sturgis Paul. We purchased this piece over 30 years ago from an Old Indian Pawn jewelry trader in New Mexico and it has been stored ever since. The piece is silver and beautiful large nuggets of Old Kingman natural turquoise. The original Kingman turquoise that was not stabilized had a tendency to turn a little green after 40 or 50 years. One of our stones has maintained that beautiful dark blue Kingman color with black matrix and the other has part of it turning green. Natural, unstabilized old Kingman turquoise did have some green stones so ours may or may not have been a combination of green and blue turquoise. It was this color when we first purchased it and it has been stored in the dark since that time so there has not been any additional color changes in the past 30 plus years.  As any turquoise collector will know, the stones can also turn color based upon skin oils or other items getting upon them over the years. 

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