🔥3 Day Sale🔥 21 Grams Gorgeous Turquoise (Bell/Sunbell & Maisel Scrap.)

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This sale is for 21 g of some of the finest 🇺🇸 stable turquoise you will see. 21 grams Maisel Indian Trading Post and Bell Trading Post original Turquoise “scrap” - excellent 4 Cabochons. 100 % useable for cabochons, hand picked From the original factory metal buckets, all stuff I personally would personally choose to cut. No chalk. No bad stable, All gorgeous and hard.
Pictures are examples of the material, colors and size will vary - Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back. (Material is stable.) We are sure that you will love it. Some of this material does need backing. You get at least 21 grams Of Old Stock Scrap Turquoise - Good Cutting Sizes rocks. Description: All slabs and slices and nuggets from the scrap of M Maisel and the Michelson family (Bell and Sunbell). I purchased this from that family in the first person, so my custody traces back to 1932.
There is Bisbee and Demale and Manasseh and all sorts of things mixed in. 21 grams of gorgeous vintage American rough turquoise ready to cut into cabochons. See Chain of Custody and Command below for sourcing. This is the real thing. This is for 21 grams of scrap pieces from tiny dime sized scraps to a silver dollar size slabs and end cuts. Lots of gen quality nuggets too. ALL stable, all stabilized by Maisel. Clean color, matrix and solids, super hard, reliably stable turquoise scrap. Considered "smalls" but almost all of it is excellent size and already started for lapidary work, all regular Joe cutters love this stuff. It is mostly Kingman from the 1970s with a mix of Orville Jack, Bisbee, Morenci, Ithica Peak, Nevada 8, Mona Lisa. Manasseh and more. There is a large percentage that is Bisbee.
Nothing is dyed or stained, no excessive amounts of host rock or dust, all 100% genuine washed and dried stabilized turquoise. It’s phenomenal material but some of it requires backing. There is NOTHING about this rock that will disappoint you. This is worth buying and cutting. Your cabochons will price from a carat to 4 a carat. I can help you price your cabochons. If you purchase, I can identify 90% of the mines in your cuts going forward if you send pictures and ask. That’s how we do it. Long term customer service.
Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back!
Shipping & Handling COST on this item Includes a living wage for a stock employee
. For shipping discount requests, please make three or more purchases totaling at least 0 - (1) please request a combined invoice and (2) wait for the invoice before paying. A response will be forthcoming within 24 hours. Must purchase 3 items minimum for 10-40% shipping discount - varies to the item value. Keep in mind that we pay for extra insurance - actual value (more than our eBay prices) and we pay a living wage for a stocker.
Return Policy:
Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back! Shipped with USPS First Class. Terms: Will send with equal insurance to purchase price. Returns allowed, but refund must wait until the order has been received BACK by our shipping department.   You MUST pay out of pocket for shipping and insurance to send back for a refund.    Also, we MUST receive the item without it getting lost in the USPS on a send back, or you will have to file insurance for a refund, rather than get one in eBay.   If the order is confirmed as lost by the USPS when we sent it, we will refund, and we will wait to collect the insurance. But to refund a lost USPS order, we must have confirmation from the USPS FIRST that it is lost    So a refund on a lost package can take a few weeks. If the order is lost when you send it back, you will NOT receive the refund because you will be the only one able to collect the insurance.   Little used policy, but needful to explain ahead of time. Really, mirrors eBay policies.
1932-2020 chain of custody and command
Turquoise Kings has exclusive possession to what we believe to be the largest known collection in the world  of turquoise scrap from the well-known Rt 66 Indian Trading posts of the 1930s to the 1970s. This chain of custody is imperative to trace, seeing as the mines that these companies worked with are easily and historically established.  After Fred Harvey alone, Jack Michelson and M Maisel are the giants who built the modern Native American jewelry and souvenir industry. Some names below are not revealed to protect privacy.
• 1939: M Maisel founds his Indian Trading Post, always saving rare turquoise scraps from Native artists.
• 1932: Jack Michelson founds the famous Bell Trading Post, also saving decades of factory turquoise scraps.
• M Maisel employees sort scrap various ways, bagging and tagging some high grade, buried in buckets.
• Bell employees mix scraps of 30s-40s with jewelry copper bits. Our experts dated our Bell scraps w/hallmarks!
• 1968: Michelson family/Bell Trading Post famously bought out Maisel. Some scrap was utilized, some saved.
• Sunbell became the brainchild of Jacquelyn Michelson. Jacquelyn and her siblings take the company global.
• 1970 on: Corinthian jewelry from the Sunbell scrap collection becomes HUGE as combined scraps were cut.
• After 1980: the Michelson family retired the Sunbell Company. The turquoise scraps disappeared into history.
• 2017: We heard New Mexico stories about scrap buckets from the Route 66 original Indian Trading Posts.
• 2018: Our family discovers a way to the family that purchased the collection, who graciously sell some scraps.
• 2020: Our family is asked indirectly through a mutual friend to purchase the entire, verified scrap collection.
• 2020: After the buy out, some scrap buckets were found to have sorted material buried in bags, some tagged.
• 2020: All identified mines/buckets had proper provenance leading to that conclusion in mine identification.
• All stabilized material in this scrap collection that was stabilized was treated by M Maisel, LW Hardy, or Jack Michelson’s family business - Bell/Sunbell.
• Some natural and/or high grade material was found after the final purchase, buried in loose buckets, bagged, tagged, identified.