Navajo Silver and Lone Mountain Nevada Spiderweb Turuquoise Cluster Ring

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A particularly beautiful Navajo silver and Lone Mountain, Nevada Spiderweb turquoise “Cluster” style ring, c. 1950's

What a simply wonderful piece this ring is! This precious little beauty is chock-full of a number of gorgeous goodies; nine lovely round vividly bright blue Lone Mountain, Nevada spiderweb turquoise cabochon stones which are

set in plain, old-style silver “Foldover” style bezels and beautifully accented by eighteen round applied silver “raindrops” in a nice, tight cluster configuration on a finely outwardly-curved concave silver shank. It’s a completely stunning, nearly finger-licking good jewelry package.

The ring measures a size 6 on a professional graduated ring sizer. The ring’s round face measures about 1" in width

and 7/8" in height and the ring weighs an extremely comfortable 18 grams or 5/8 ounce. It rises upwards about 3/8" above the finger. The ring is unsigned for the maker; an unknown but clearly extremely skilled Navajo silversmith.

The ring is in completely excellent original condition overall. One or two of the turquoise stones have small, likely matrix-related cracks which is of no particular consequence.

Not much more to say here other than “I’ll take it”. And it’s over to you for that part.

Price $875

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Lone Mountain Turquoise

This mine once produced a great variety of turquoise, included some of the finest examples of spider web turquoise as well as clear, deep-blue stones. Lone Mountain turquoise has always been noted for holding its color. Among all “classic” Southwestern turquoise, only Lander Blue is more valuable. A rare occurrence has been the “fossil turquoise” found in this mine. The fossil is of a crinoid stem. The Lone Mountain mine consists of a series of haphazard tunnels dug by miners chasing the veins of turquoise. The mine was claimed by Lee Hand in 1920 first as the Blue Jay Mining Lode and later, after seeing that so many mines had been named Blue Jay, Hand changed the mine’s name to Lone Mountain. In the 1960’s Lone Mountain was converted to a small open pit operations by Menliss Winfield. It continues to be mined in this fashion today. In 1979, I purchased Lone Mountain with the King family of Austin, Texas and Santa Fe, New Mexico. I have had different partners over the years and the property has only been mined 6 over the last 28 years. The reason for this is the expense of mining and the regulations for small mine owners, makes it very difficult to be profitable. But with the value of the classic American turquoise mines being so great, it is feasible for this great mine to once again be of great value.