Finest Teardrop Turquoise, Pearl, Gold, earrings created and handcrafted in Sydney.
The term “Finest Teardrop Turquoise” for the above gemstone pair is justified, for these two matched gemstones are of the highest Turquoise AGrade blue colour, natural and untreated save for a surface waxing.
The source of the above gemstone Turquoise is the famous Sleeping Beauty Mine of Arizona USA, considered one of the most important Turquoise mines of the world. The finest Sleeping Beauty Turquoise is the equal of the finest Turquoise from the great gemstone region of eastern Iran, east of Maschad, since antiquity the major world source of Turquoise.
The Sleeping Beauty Mine shut its Turquoise operations over a decade ago, but a number of Turquoise dealers in the US South West, aware of the coming closure, built up considerable stores of the gemstone, and the best quality Sleeping Beauty Turquoise, albeit in diminishing quantities, can still be sourced at the annual big trade fairs in that part of the world.

Here this Finest Teardrop Turquoise is paired with lovely little natural half-Pearls; Turquoise and Pearl was one of the very favourite gemstone combinations of the Victorian English; Gold rings of this period with this pairing of gemstones, and more rarely Gold pendants, still occasionally surface.

Earring settings handmade Sydney specifically for these fine gemstones, and solidly; note the last image in the gallery above, showing the rear view and just how solidly crafted these are.