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Pendants, Sterling and Colorful Stone Inlaid by John Hull.  Simple and elegant.  

Clean, Contemporary, Colorful and Convertible!

Hand Made in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Since 1987.

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  • Pendant, Blue Tyrone Turquoise Point in Sterling - Gloria Sawin  Fine Jewelry

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    Pendant, Blue Tyrone Turquoise Point in Sterling

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    Pendant, Blue Tyrone Turquoise Point in Sterling

    $475.00

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    Pendant, Blue Tyrone Turquoise Point in Sterling

    Are You looking for Something Modern and Versatile? The best turquoise we've ever used.

    Pendant only.  Wishbone Chain Sold Separately.

    Pedant 2 ¼" long including lobster claw, 1" wide.

    Large Lobster Claw allows you to attach to beads, or chains.

    Blue Tyrone Turquoise

    Turquoise mining in the Burro Mountains near Silver City, New Mexico, has been going on since pre-historic times.  The Tyrone mine produced great quantities of hard, deep and bright turquoise as well as pale spring green turquoise.   "Turquoise John" or John Coleman, is credited with the modern unearthing of Turquoise in this area.  It is said he discovered some of the old mining activities while he was on a hunting trip in 1875.  Research resulted in the discovery of the ancient excavations. The mine hasn't produced any turquoise since the 80's.  This turquoise is highly collectible.

    Handmade in Santa Fe, NM since 1987.

     

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  • Pendant, Orange Rosarita Spear in Sterling - Gloria Sawin  Fine Jewelry

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    Pendant, Orange Rosarita Spear in Sterling

    $325.00

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    Pendant, Orange Rosarita Spear in Sterling

    $325.00

    Pendant, Orange Rosarita Spear Shape in Sterling

    "If you're not willing to risk the unusual, you'll have to settle for the ordinary"

    Price for Pendant only.

    3" including  Lobster Claw 1" wide. 

    Shown on Chains from this site.

    This is the real thing.  Orange Rosarita from our personal collection. 

    Rosarita is a very rare material.  

    In the early 1940’s Gold Prices spiked.  As a result of the new high prices some Prospectors revisited the old gold mine areas in places such as Colorado, California, Alaska, etc. 

    These crusty codgers would build brick kilns over open pits and super-heat that gold-bearing ore that still litters the sites.  The return was small and the practice only lasted about 5 years.  The gold would sink to the bottom and the beautiful red gold slag would run off down the mountains, and solidify into boulders of Brilliant Red and Orange, much like Obsidian is formed in a volcanic reaction.

    It is very rare, but we are lucky enough to have a nice collection.  The material is durable and readily polishes to a beautiful shine.  So far we have found no other information on it.  We feel very blessed to have such a lovely earth element to work with.  Rosarita is the only material available in such a true red color.  Some pieces have swirls of orange and these are even more rare. 

    Rosarita was named after a beach in Mexico because of the brilliant color.  

    Pendant Charms - Collect them all - Rainbows of color and fun!

    Handmade in Santa Fe, NM since 1987

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  • Pendant, Quartz Crystal Point in Sterling - Gloria Sawin  Fine Jewelry

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    Pendant, Quartz Crystal Point in Sterling

    $325.00

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    Pendant, Quartz Crystal Point in Sterling

    $325.00

    Quartz Crystal Point in Sterling

    Are You looking for Something Modern and Versatile?

    Large Lobster Claw allows you to attach to beads, or chains.

    Quartz crystal was once believed to be an eternal ice sent by the heavenly gods. Until the late 1500s, many scholars thought this stone was fossilized ice. Quartz crystal is actually a mineral, one of the most abundant minerals in the Earth's continental crust, composed of silicon and oxygen.

    Quartz can be icy clear or have inclusions, veils, bubbles and various colors. It is also known as rock crystal, crystal quartz, universal crystal or clear quartz.

    People in the earliest recorded times believed in the magical powers of quartz. Ancient Roman, Egyptian and Greek civilizations used quartz crystals as potent talismans.  The word crystal comes from the Greek word "krystallos," which means ice.

    Shown here on Wish Bone Hand Made Chain Sold Separately.

    Handmade in Santa Fe, NM since 1987.

     

     

     

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  • Pendant, Opal Heart Small - Gloria Sawin  Fine Jewelry

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    Pendant, Opal Heart Small

    $275.00

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    Pendant, Opal Heart Small

    $275.00

    Small Heart in Opal.

    Lobster claw clasp. Oxidized here.  Available in Satin Finish 

     Beautifully whimsical!

    Shown here on our Small Disk Chain sold separately on this site.

    Cultured Opals are a lab created stone.  It was a project started some 20 years ago by a turquoise fanatic and chemist.  Lab created opal is pretty but gets dull, and it just doesn’t really capture the light dispersement that real opals do.  This was because no one was really getting those silica dioxide particulars small enough to mimic Mother Nature.  The nano particles of silica dioxide are just the same as natural opal.  They are almost as small as an atom.  The matrix is a nod to turquoise and the two together are magic.  It takes about a year to grow.  It is more durable than natural opal and this makes this material ideal for rings and bracelets as detergents won’t hurt it.  It has a hardness of 5.5 on the Mohs scale. 

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  • Pendant, Rutilated Quartz Point in Sterling - Gloria Sawin  Fine Jewelry

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    Pendant, Rutilated Quartz Point in Sterling

    $475.00

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    Pendant, Rutilated Quartz Point in Sterling

    $475.00

    Rutilated Quartz Point in Sterling

    Are You looking for Something Modern and Versatile?

    A crystal within a Crystal!

    Large Lobster Claw allows you to attach to beads, or chains.

    Like a diamond in the rough, Rutilated quartz was long disregarded by miners and mineral sorters as worthless. Only pure quartz was viewed as valuable and so this variety was seen as tainted.

    Around the middle of the 20th century, however, this began to change. Fashion designers and collectors began to appreciate the ethereal beauty of rutilated quartz, sometimes likening its shimmering rutile threads to angel’s hair.

    While the quartz in rutilated quartz can be either smoky or clear and sometimes even black, the color of the rutile inclusions will depend on their iron oxide content. When the iron oxide in rutile quartz is high, the inclusions take on redder and often golden tones. Such inclusions can look like hay or strands of golden hair. This is why golden rutilated quartz is often referred to as angel’s hair quartz

    Shown here on Wish Bone Hand Made Chain Sold Separately.

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  • Pendant, Mother-of-Pearl Heart Medium in Sterling - Gloria Sawin  Fine Jewelry

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    Pendant, Mother-of-Pearl Heart Medium in Sterling

    $375.00

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    Pendant, Mother-of-Pearl Heart Medium in Sterling

    $375.00

    Pendant,Mother-of-Pearl Heart Medium in Sterling

    Beautiful Heart Shape on Lobster Claw allows you to attach on beads, or chains.  Chain Sold Separately.

    Mother of pearl shell for jewelry refers to the nacre that coats the inside layer of the mollusk shell which is used to form pearls--hence, it's the mother of the pearl. Mother of pearl shell jewelry can include much larger focal pieces than simple pearls since nacre substance takes up a whole shell's interior, offering a larger working surface for carving. In addition to jewelry, mother-of-pearl shell has been used in medieval European, East Asian and Islamic religious art. Starting during the Victorian Era, mother-of-pearl shell began to also be used for clock faces, buttons, jewelry boxes and more. One especially popular use was inlay work, such as the handles of knives and pistols, as well as historical and contemporary use as inlays for guitars and other musical instruments.

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  • Pendants, Opal Square in Sterling - Gloria Sawin  Fine Jewelry

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    Pendants, Opal Square in Sterling

    $275.00

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    Pendants, Opal Square in Sterling

    $275.00

    Pendant, Opal Small Pillow Shape in Sterling

    Pendant sold separately from chain.

    AURORA OPAL 

    Cultured Opals are a lab created stone.  It was a project started some 20 years ago by a turquoise fanatic and chemist.  Lab created opal is pretty but gets dull, and it just doesn’t really capture the light dispersement that real opals do.  This was because no one was really getting those silica dioxide particulars small enough to mimic Mother Nature.  The nano particles of silica dioxide are just the same as natural opal.  They are almost as small as an atom.  The matrix is a nod to turquoise and the two together are magic.  It takes about a year to grow.  It is more durable than natural opal and this makes this material ideal for rings and bracelets as detergents won’t hurt it.  It has a hardness of 5.5 on the Mohs scale.

    1 ¼"  including Lobster Claw

    Great to collect for a charm bracelet or to wear as a necklace.


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  • Pendants, Opal Reverses to Zia Symbol Round in Sterling - Gloria Sawin  Fine Jewelry

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    Pendants, Opal Reverses to Zia Symbol Round in Sterling

    $275.00

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    Pendants, Opal Reverses to Zia Symbol Round in Sterling

    $275.00

    Reversible Opal/Zia Symbol Round Blue-Green Aurora Opal and Sterling

    Pendant sold separately from chain.

    If you are, or someone you know are from New Mexico or just Love New Mexico, this is the perfect item.  New Mexico’s distinctive insignia is the Zia Sun symbol, which originated with the Indians of the Zia Pueblo in Ancient times.  Four is the sacred number of Zia and the figure is composed of a circle from which four points radiate.  These points made up of four straight lines of varying length personify the number most often used by the Giver of all good gifts.

    To the Zia Indian, the sacred number four is embodied in the earth, with its four directions, north, south, east, west; in the year, with its four seasons, summer, fall, winter, spring; in the day, with the morning, noon, evening and night; in line, with it’s four divisions, childhood, youth, manhood, and old age.  Everything is bound together in a circle of life and love, without beginning, without end.  Everything is found together that in this great brotherhood of all things, man has four sacred obligations:  he must develop a strong body, a clear mind, a pure spirit and a devotion to the welfare of his people.  

    AURORA OPAL 

    Cultured Opals are a lab created stone.  It was a project started some 20 years ago by a turquoise fanatic and chemist.  Lab created opal is pretty but gets dull, and it just doesn’t really capture the light dispersement that real opals do.  This was because no one was really getting those silica dioxide particulars small enough to mimic Mother Nature.  The nano particles of silica dioxide are just the same as natural opal.  They are almost as small as an atom.  The matrix is a nod to turquoise and the two together are magic.  It takes about a year to grow.  It is more durable than natural opal and this makes this material ideal for rings and bracelets as detergents won’t hurt it.  It has a hardness of 5.5 on the Mohs scale.

    ¾" not including Lobster Claw

    Great to collect for a charm bracelet or to wear as a necklace.

    Charm Bracelet sold Separately.

    HandMade in Santa Fe, NM since 1987

     

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  • Pendant, Rosarita Square Small in Sterling - Gloria Sawin  Fine Jewelry

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    Pendant, Rosarita Square Small in Sterling

    $275.00

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    Pendant, Rosarita Square Small in Sterling

    $275.00

    Pendant, Rosarita Small Pillow Shape in Sterling

    ¾" plus ½"  Lobster Claw

    Collect them all.  Rainbows of Color and Fun!

    Rosarita is a very rare material.  

    In the early 1940’s Gold Prices spiked.  As a result of the new high prices some Prospectors revisited the old gold mine areas in places such as Colorado, California, Alaska, etc. 

    These crusty codgers would build brick kilns over open pits and super-heat that gold-bearing ore that still litters the sites.  The return was small and the practice only lasted about 5 years.  The gold would sink to the bottom and the beautiful red gold slag would run off down the mountains, and solidify into boulders of Brilliant Red and Orange, much like Obsidian is formed in a volcanic reaction.

    It is very rare, but we are lucky enough to have a nice collection.  The material is durable and readily polishes to a beautiful shine.  So far we have found no other information on it.  We feel very blessed to have such a lovely earth element to work with.  Rosarita is the only material available in such a true red color.  Some pieces have swirls of orange and these are even more rare. 

    Rosarita was named after a beach in Mexico because of the brilliant color.  

    Pendant Charms - Collect them all - Rainbows of color and fun!

    Handmade in Santa Fe, NM since 1987


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