Sterling Silver Bracelet with Chinese Hubei Turquoise Signed Paul Livingston

Stone:This stamped overlay sterling silver bracelet features a beautiful rare light to dark blue gradient Chinese Hubei turquoise. Chinese Turquoise has gained popularity in the United States early on since the 1950's. China used to be the largest turquoise exporter of the world. Many black spider web from Hubei was valued as high as the Lander Blue. Today, Chinese Hubei, Chinese Wulanhua remain a top of American turquoise collectors' collection list.Artist:Paul Livingston was born in 1954 and has spent his entire life in the Navajo Church Rock Reservation where he grew up watching with fascination as his silversmith Uncle crafted raw metal and stone into beautiful jewelry. Through trial and error and a great deal of help from his Uncle, Paul became a fairly accomplished young jewelry maker. By the time he was 22 years old he was ready to launch himself full time into becoming a silversmith. Today nearly 40 years later Paul is a nationally known and collected jewelry artist. He is part