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 Annisassi era or before. Anyway, John created a scallop cut solid bezel to hold the massive stone in place wrapped with thick twisted wire. Mounted to a blackened oxidized silver base with a solid gauge sterling scallop rimmed shadowbox around it. He’s finished the extra large bolo pendant 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 seamed bead end tips.

The extra large solid and heavy bolo shadowbox setting measures 4” by 3” across with the stone itself measuring 3” by 2” across (approx. 78mm by 48mm). The 4-ply cord measures 50” long which includes the 2 1/4” sterling silver 8mm bead end tips. The total weigh of the bolo tie is a hefty 145.6 grams (5.14 oz or 4.68 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