Welcome to Vintage Turquoise Jewelry

This Vintage Turquoise Jewelry website is dedicated to Vintage Turquoise Jewelry by the Native American Indians as well as all other peoples around the world. The Turquoise used in Vintage Turquoise Jewelry is very important, as it is a great way to further identify the Jewelry. For this reason, this site provides a lot of information and examples on Turquoise from the United States and around the world.

Archaeologists excavated the oldest group of Turquoise Jewelry known in the world at the cemetery of the royal tombs at Abydos, in upper Egypt. Gold and Turquoise bracelets, among other items, found are now in the Cairo Museum. These items are claimed to be from approximately 5500 B.C. Another Famous Piece featuring turquoise is Tutankhamun's Solid Gold Inner Coffin!

Historic records show the mining of Turquoise in Persia started around 2100 B.C. and for centuries was recognized as the worlds finest Turquoise. We will identify Vintage Turquoise Jewelry made in Persia and the surrounding civilizations. Persian Turquoise was traded throughout the world at that time and was set mainly in gold by goldsmiths worldwide, so, we are certain it was used in other parts of the world.

Turquoise from the Himalayas near Tibet is said to be found around 1000 B.C. It was first used as medicine in religious circles. Turquoise Beads and Jewelry have been made in Tibet from farther back in history then they have records. Authentic Vintage Turquoise Jewelry from Tibet is very rare and hard to find as they have been faking Antiques in Tibet for centuries.

Native American Indian Jewelers can trace their art to a Navajo named Atsidi Saani, who learned blacksmithing at Fort Defiance, Arizona, in the 1850s. It is believed that the Spanish colonizers of the Southwest purposely taught the techniques of metalworking to the region's native peoples. It was after the 20th century that Turquoise in Silver Jewelry made by Navajo Indians became popular to the American civilization.

Native American Indian made Vintage Turquoise Jewelry has become rare and very collectible. As in Tibet, when the public started paying a lot of money for Antique Indian Jewelry, a new movement came to be and that is the reproduction of Vintage American Indian Jewelry.

Old Pawn - Antique Native American Jewelry History