NEW! Wow! We commissioned a few items from Mr. Larson and this is one of them. An extra large heavy Cerrillos turquoise shadowbox one-of-a-kind collector’s bolo tie. John was telling me the large stone was from the Cerrillos Mine and that his father had gifted it to him. Well, John’s in his 70’s so God knows how long the stone has been out of the ground and polished. The Cerrillos Mine is known as the oldest turquoise mined in the United States territory (obviously not named then) dating back to the Anastasi era or before. Anyway, John created a square tooth cut solid bezel to hold the large stone in place. Mounted to a blackened oxidized silver base with a solid gauge sterling silver rimmed shadowbox around it. He’s applied repeating sunrise stampwork around the top lip of the shadowbox along with large sun rays and finished the decoration with wrapping the out rim with twisted wire. He continues by attaching a thumb locking bolo clasp on back. Finishing out the bolo tie he used a large 4-ply braided black leather cord with sterling silver fluted seamed bead end tips.

The extra large solid and heavy bolo shadowbox setting measures 3 3/4” by 2 1/2” across with the stone itself measuring 2 5/8” by 1 1/2” across (approx. 66mm by 39mm). The 4-ply cord measures 49” long which includes the 2 1/4” sterling silver 8.3mm x 10mm bead end tips. The total weigh of the bolo tie is a hefty 111.2 grams (3.922 oz or 3.575 ozt) and is signed John Larson - Sterling on an attached silver plate under the thumb clasp. This is a heavy solid sterling gauge silver with a very large somewhat rare stone and one-of-a-kind collectors piece of wearable art! $2388.95