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Teardrop 3/4" x 1 3/4" - Matching earrings are available for purchase on the earrings page.
This pendant was built around a single idea the sky, and what falls from it. The teardrop Kingman turquoise cabochon measures ¾” x 1¼” a vivid, electric blue of exceptional saturation, clean and pure from edge to edge, the color of open sky at altitude on a day with no clouds and no argument. The stone sits above a hand-hammered crescent moon in oxidized sterling silver curved and sure with a large open circle below that grounds the composition and gives the whole piece a quiet celestial logic. Teardrop over crescent over circle. Sky, moon, world. It is a pendant that tells a story without saying a word.
The setting is entirely handmade each element forged, hammered, and assembled by hand in Taos. The crescent and circle are not cast findings but fabricated forms, their surfaces textured by the hammer in a way that catches light differently at every angle. This is the kind of silverwork that takes longer and shows more the difference between something made and something manufactured. At ¾” x 1¼” the pendant is elegantly scaled present without being heavy, architectural without being cold. Sold without a cord or chain it belongs on whatever you already love most.
Details:
Stone: Kingman Turquoise · Origin: Arizona · Matrix: Turquoise & Tans · Metal: Custom Sterling Silver · Pendant Setting: 18mm x 32mm Teardrop · One of a Kind with Makers Mark
Made in Taos by a Taosena.
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Tear In The Sky - Kingman Turquoise Pendant
The Kingman mine sits in Mineral Park, Mohave County in northwestern Arizona one of the oldest and most storied turquoise operations in North America. Archaeological evidence places turquoise mining at Kingman as far back as 1000 AD, when Ancestral Puebloan and Mojave peoples worked the deposit long before European contact. The mine has been in continuous or near-continuous production ever since, making it one of the longest-running turquoise sources on the continent.
What distinguishes Kingman turquoise is the exceptional range and consistency of its color a vivid, saturated blue that collectors and silversmiths have prized for generations. Kingman produces some of the bluest turquoise in the world, ranging from bright robin’s egg and sky blue to deeper Persian blue, often with a distinctive black, brown, or silver matrix that provides striking contrast against the stone’s saturated ground. The water web Kingman where fine silver and black matrix forms a delicate web across the surface of the stone is among the most coveted turquoise formations anywhere, sought by serious collectors and commanding significant premiums over unmarked material.
Kingman turquoise is natural and genuine the mine produces both stabilized material for the commercial market and high grade natural stones for collectors and artisan jewelers who insist on untreated material. The distinction matters. Natural Kingman holds its color without treatment, a testament to the mineral stability of the deposit and the quality of the stone coming out of the ground.
The Mineral Park mine has passed through several ownership periods over the decades and production has been inconsistent periods of active mining followed by closure, each reopening producing new material of sometimes dramatically different character. What comes out of Kingman today is not guaranteed to look like what came out twenty years ago. Each period of production has its own signature. This stone carries the Kingman name because it earned it in the ground, in the color, and in the hands of a Taoseña who knows the difference.
