{"product_id":"maisels-turquoise-nugget-pendant-brown-matrix","title":"Vintage Maisel's Turquoise Nugget Pendant, Sterling Silver, Natural Brown Matrix, New Old Stock Original Card, Trading Post","description":"\u003cp\u003eA natural turquoise nugget in a soft sky blue, run through with brown matrix, capped with a sterling silver bail and hung on the original Maisel's card it has sat on since the trading post stocked it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the most on-brand piece in the whole collection, because it is the only kind of thing here where the stone does the talking. Nobody carved this nugget into a shape. It was cut, polished, capped, and left alone, which is how the good ones get handled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNatural turquoise nugget with brown matrix\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSterling silver bail, marked on the original Maisel's card\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eApprox. 5\/8\" tall x 3\/8\" wide, not including the bail\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew old stock, still attached to its original Maisel's card\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne available, and the stone is one of one\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe story\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nMaisel's Indian Trading Post opened on Route 66 in downtown Albuquerque in 1939. Maurice Maisel hired John Gaw Meem, the architect who defined Pueblo Revival, and told him he was \"not content with the usual Indian thing.\" Olive Rush designed the murals across the facade, painted by young artists including Pablita Velarde, Ben Quintana, Harrison Begay, and Pop Chalee. By the 1940s Maisel's was the largest trading post on Route 66. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places. This pendant came off that counter and never left its card.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy the nugget matters\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nThe pale blue and the wandering brown matrix are the stone's own. There is no second one, because there is no second stone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFree shipping over $75. Thirty-day returns.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wildflower Artisans","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48442990887134,"sku":"WF-MAI-NUG-BR","price":68.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0791\/2538\/1342\/files\/maisels-turquoise-nugget-pendant-brown-matrix-front_71c11bdb-2b01-49a3-b849-cbb14255ca8d.jpg?v=1784265454","url":"https:\/\/wildflowerartisans.com\/products\/maisels-turquoise-nugget-pendant-brown-matrix","provider":"Wildflower Artisans","version":"1.0","type":"link"}