If anyone has any ideas who this hallmark might belong to, or what type of turquoise this might be, I’d love to hear em! Just got this guy and love the turquoise
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I had no luck with a quick search. And I really don’t have a definitive guess on your turquoise, although it reminds me of some Kingman I have seen. But it is beautiful!
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Interesting piece!
The red is Mediterranean coral, and the light pieces are ivory.
I hope you are keeping it and not trying to list it for sale. Because it is ivory, you cannot legally sell it.
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Beautiful piece! I have a bolo tie with very similar looking turquoise, and it’s from Turquoise Mountain Mine.
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Thanks for the heads up! I assumed it was white coral.
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That makes sense, since it is in the Kingman mining district.
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Yes, indeed! It’s one of their mines. Gorgeous turquoise comes out if that one, doesn’t it!?
TBH, I only have one ring that I know for sure has Turquoise Mountain turquoise, and it’s not one of my favorites. But I have seen some beautiful turquoise from there, although I actually like some of my Kingman better 
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Agreed…I have a piece of turquoise mountain that looks very different but it has had a lot of looks over the years I guess!
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Thanks for finding that!
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I have no idea what kind of turquoise, just wanted to say how beautiful this is.
Well If anyone’s curious I just got a supposedly confident ID from someone knowledgeable, it’s actually dendritic lone mountain that’s turned green w/ skin oil and age! I didn’t even suspect that one….
“Solid ID” is a stretch, in that the responding party on FB to your question is not a known turquoise specialist but a private lapidary artist, no website, no credentials. Maybe @Jason could take a look.
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Great piece of turquoise. I do need to ask about using the term “dendritic” loosely? as I have typically associated it with more distinctive dendrites as shown (mindat.org): I’m open to being corrected.
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I wouldn’t have labeled it “dendritic” either, it does have a little f that but not as pronounced or as much like that as other pieces I’ve seen….i think this is a label (dendritic lone mountain) for a specific type/look of lone mountain, but yes I’ve seen other turquoise that looks much more definitely dendritic
Good point, they just seemed so confident…..but of course I’ve had confident first ID’s once or twice in the past from even verified appraisers who were wrong so…..yeah I shouldn’t be so confident about that ID
Most of the time things are given special terms and names to jack up the price. Human nature to pull something out of you know where to make more $$$. People eat it up like “healing” stones. Take “spiderweb” turquoise. Anyone that’s seen a spiders web knows that is a direct insult to the spiders engineering ability. More resembles cobwebs. But who would pay big bucks for something called “cobweb” turquoise.
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Well dendritic just means “tree-like”, as in branching…I actually do think certain types of “spiderweb” turquoise have patterns that fit this much term better than as you say, “spiderweb”….ive noticed that a lot of Persian turquoise sellers say a piece has “good tree”
I’m gonna disagree on the spider web description. I don’t believe it is a marketing term; I believe it is a pretty well known phrase that has been around for a long time, and is used for turquoise from many different mines. Personally I find it helpful. If I am describing the matrix in my turquoise it’s a heck of a lot easier to say “spiderweb” than, “matrix with lots of tiny black lines forming a web-like pattern.” And to me “cob web” would look different. I think of cobwebs as being the wispy blobby webs that I need to clean out of my basement
I agree than “dendritic” is being commonly used when it has a specific definition relating to turquoise, and I believe it is quite rare. I remember it looking more like the photo @StevesTrail posted above, only with turquoise. And I do see terms like “ceremonial turquoise” getting thrown around for sales purposes.
Now just don’t get me started on the extreme over use of “old pawn”…….
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