This is the exact bracelet you will receive in the photos. This beautiful bracelet has natural wear common to its age. Please see photos for any small scratches, but they don’t take away from it’s beauty that will be seen by people many feet away, or next to you that will notice its beauty. Notice this is not a machine made bracelet made somewhere on a production line in a factory in Asia, this is made in America, by the hands of an unknown Navajo artisan, who probably made it for a family member. Please notice all of the 12 photos that also give great detail of this piece that your eye can detect with appreciation of the artist’s craftsmanship from top to bottom and side to side, front and back. This has Five Stunning beautiful blue Morenci Turquoise cabochons, or cabs, or stones, as are the various names used for them, with silver pyrite and dark matrix. It has the largest cabochon in the middle and 2 cabs on each side, narrowing down to the smallest on each end. They are all very nice and beautiful. Please compare the cabochons to the quarter I put in the photo to show size. Weight in grams, on my small portable scale is approximately 94.6 Grams, or approximately 3.33 Ounces, and this may of course vary slightly on your scale or others, due to the manufacturing of individual scales and humidity in the room and even placement of the item, either in the middle or off center on the scale. Please see all photos. This beautiful bracelet starting with one single molded sheet of Sterling silver piece that fits comfortably and smoothly around your wrist, and the handmade Raindrops, or silver balls, as they are also called, around and to the sides and in between each stone, that are dropped gently and set in place. This bracelet cuff also has beautiful design work with twisted silver rope across the inside middle, between two split-shanks. There are Eight hand made naturally hand-crafted various size Raindrops, or often called silver balls, two each that were dropped between the 5 cabochons. The stones and the beautiful work around the bezel, are classic Navajo art from this gifted artist. This Vintage Bracelet-cuff, had normal wear for its age, with a few small scratches that can barely be seen, except up close to the eye. Please measure your wrist or the wrist of the person this is for, with a tape Measurer, or if you don’t have one, then a piece of string or piece of paper wrapped around your wrist, and then measure the paper or string with a ruler to get your approximate wrist size. The best fit would depend on the form of your wrist of course, even if you have a very round wrist or a broad flat or bony wrist, simply measure it to find the circumference around it and if it would fit into this size of this bracelet cuff. Please see the photos of the Tape Measurer showing the inside measurement of the bracelet, that shows the end to end measurement inside from one end of the inside to the other of approximately, 5-3/4 inches, and then the measurement of the opening, or gap, as what the space between the ends is called, with the measurement of 1 inch, to fit your wrist into and through. This will comfortably fit up to about approximately a 6-3/4 inch wrist, at 6-3/4 it will fit snugly, and securely. This bracelet is approximately 1-3/8 inches tall, as you can see in the photo, from top to bottom, as some people refer to it as, and this will allow your wrist to easily move freely and comfortably up and down, and side to side with this beautiful bracelet on your wrist. I don’t recommended trying to bend or stretch out this strong Sterling silver bracelet to make it fit, since you could possibly damage the bracelet and the stones. The Morenci turquoise mine is considered by many as one of the top favorite Turquoise Mines in America, with its stunning blue colors, and often with silver pyrite and various matrix, which a few of these cabochons have in their matrix. These stones were most likely cut in the late 1950s or early 1960s, this handmade split-shank silver bar has one twisted silver rope going from one end of the split shank to the other end, and the silver backing placed against it holds the Five Morenci turquoise cabochons firmly in place in their bezels, were used to make this beautiful bracelet-cuff. I purposely put the United States Quarter in the photo to show the size comparison, so if you need to determine the size of the bracelet with the information I have given, and how it would fit on your wrist please take a quarter and put it on your wrist or several quarters to give you some idea of the size comparison of the bracelet on your wrist, and move it around if necessary to get a better sense of size, plus of course using the size measurements. Please forgive me for needing to add this. The item “Morenci Turquoise Native American Navajo Sterling Silver Bracelet Vintage 1960s” is in sale since Wednesday, December 21, 2016. This item is in the category “Jewelry & Watches\Ethnic, Regional & Tribal\Native American\Bracelets”. The seller is “searchingforfun” and is located in Vincennes, Indiana. This item can be shipped to United States, to Canada, to United Kingdom, DK, FI, HU, LT, EE, to Australia, GR, PT, to Japan, to China, SE, to Belgium, to France, to Hong Kong, to Ireland, to Netherlands, PL, to Spain, to Germany, to Austria, to Mexico, to New Zealand, NO.
- Signed?: Unsigned
- Metal: Sterling Silver
- Jewelry Type: Bracelets
- Tribal Affiliation: Navajo
- Artisan: Unknown 1960s Navajo Craftsmanship
- Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
- Metal Purity: Unknown
- Country of Origin: United States, Navajo Indian tribe
- Main Stone: Turquoise