Vintage Italian deals Chevrons, Blue Topaz and Roman Glass Necklace with Vintage Navajo Pendant

$150.00
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Vintage Italian deals Chevrons, Blue Topaz and Roman Glass Necklace with Vintage Navajo Pendant, I bought this lovely blue pendant online and was told it was turquoise.
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Product code: Vintage Italian deals Chevrons, Blue Topaz and Roman Glass Necklace with Vintage Navajo Pendant

I bought this lovely blue pendant online and was told it was turquoise. I know blue can get out of whack when you try to show it in photos, so I assumed that had happened here. But the pendant arrived and it is very blue, just like the photo. There is no turquoise that is this
blue. The bluest I know, Sleeping Beauty turquoise from Arizona, is green next to this stone. I believe it's denim lapis but all the beads I found in that material were grayer.

So I played a little trick of the eye with this piece. I combined bright teals and seafoam greens with royal blue and pale blue topaz. The result fakes the eye into seeing a match, at least it tricks my eye!

Made with a mixture of styles and ages of Italian glass trade beads, a very pretty mix, one very old striped bead I've never seen before. It's a 4 or 5 layer Italian I THINK, but it could also be from Java. I'll need to ask "my" bead expert. That's all tossed together with small blue topaz faceted beads, some sentimental crystal from North Carolina, freeform ancient Roman glass and a lovely little vintage Navajo pendant that was sold to me online as turquoise, but it isn't. I thought maybe it was denim lapis, but I couldn't find any stone to match it. All I know is it's a beautiful cornflower blue that is hard to find in natural stone. Strung on 49 strand nylon coated stainless steel wire with sterling crimps and a pewter toggle clasp made in the US with high quality, lead deals free, cadmium free, pewter.
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