Fox Pendant by Randy Bubba Shackelford

Silver ingot pendant is set with Fox Turquoise. He uses old techniques to make his jewelry, which gives it a vintage look.

Whole Size: 1.90" x 1.57"

Stone Size: 0.20" (Rd) / 0.26" x 0.19" (Square)

Bail Size: 0.25" x 0.23"

Material: Ingot Silver

Weight: 0.79Oz 22.40grams

Artist: Randy "Bubba" Shackelford (Anglo)

Bubba began by selling his jewelry out of his Ford Falcon automobile all over town, giving Falcon Trading Company its namesake. Bubba produced FTC jewelry for many years afterwards, until his sight began to fade from diabetes. In 2014, Bubba took on a young student at that time named Joe O'Neill, who is now the head silversmith at Falcon Trading. He works with Bubba daily to continue on the tradition of creating beautiful tufa cast ingot jewelry in the southwestern/Santa Fe style.

Stone: Fox Turquoise

The Fox Turquoise mine, near Lander County, Nevada was discovered in the early 1900’s. It was once Nevada’s largest producer of turquoise with some half million pounds. This mine has been closed for quite some time. In prehistoric times, indigenous peoples mined turquoise and found large nuggets. It produces a huge quantity of good-quality green or blue-green stone with a distinctive matrix. The Fox mine has also been known as the Cortez mine.