[Jewelry making - Article 00838] - Re: [Orchid] [Source] 'Persian' turquiose beads

[Sam Patania]

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    I had heard several years ago that Sleeping Beauty was taken to Iran
    (Persia) to be cut in the Persian style. The Persians do have a
    distinct way of cabbing which is  to have a realtively large under
    cut under the largest diameter of the cab. I would call it a girdle
    on a facet and don't know what term to give it for a cab and the
    under cut makes a pavillian of sorts, again excepting it is a cab .
    In discussing this type of cut with the same man who told me about
    Sleeping Beauty going to Persia he informed me that this is done to
    increase the carat weight per stone. I can see no benefit to this
    type of cut in closed back bezel setting which is typical of US work.
    Why would Sleeping Beauty be sent to Persia to be cut and in what
    time frame would this have occured? I would guess because of the
    availability of skilled cutters and the lack of available clear
    Persian turquoise to cut. Price increase due to being able to call it
    Persian instead of Sleeping Beauty would pay for the trip. Persian
    getting $4 to $8 a carat for clear material ( wholesale) , and
    Sleeping Beauty $2 per carat. Time frame I would guess, and I should
    call the Sleeping Beauty mine to ask, 1970's? I will ask Robin
    Hacobian, the R.H. of R.H. and Company about this. He brought many
    thousand carats of matrix turquoise from Iran when he first came to
    the US because it could not be sold in Iran. Matrix stone being
    looked down on there. My father bought it in the early 60's and
    according to my father , Robin returned to try and buy the lot back
    from my dad for a large price increase. My dad did not sell and I
    still have some of the original papers with Persian writting on them
    which Robin was fascinated to see a few years ago. Oddly enough, I as
    a high school student in the late '70's just prior to the deposing of
    the Shah , lived in Tehran for a year. I will write back about what
    Robin has to say. 

Sam Patania, Tucson
www.patanias.com

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