Archive for the ‘Western Silver’ Category

Antique Indian Silver Jewelry

Friday, July 8th, 2011

Antique Native American Indian Silver JewelryAntique Indian Silver Jewelry – John and Dillon Hartman of Durango Silver Company have just completed a great new informational presentation on Antique Indian Silver Jewelry, we would like to invite you to come and check it out at Antique Indian Silver Jewelry.

This new presentation page on Antique Indian Silver Jewelry is part of an ongoing informational site that we are working on to educate you on Silver Jewelry from the Southwestern United States and our company, Durango Silver Company of Durango, Colordo USA. We intend to have a major collection of Silver Jewelry informational pages that we believe you will enjoy as well as having another great resource on Silver Jewelry.

Antique Indian Silver Jewelry is one hundred years old or older according to the Antique Guild and the trade. Vintage Indian Silver Jewelry is Indian Silver Jewelry that is 25 years old or older. So, with this being said Antique Indian Silver Jewelry is Indian Silver Jewelry that was made prior to 1911 which is 100 years ago when this document was written.

This informational page shows you examples of Antique Indian Silver Jewelry and gives you descriptive text explaining what you see in the photos shown, check it out!

Western Silver Jewelry

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

Western Silver Jewelry by Durango Silver CompanyWestern Silver Jewelry by Durango Silver Company

Durango Silver Company has been producing high quality Western Silver Jewelry for nearly 40 years now. We started our company in Albuquerque, New Mexico and then moved to Durango, Colorado in 1974. We built our Trading Post in 1976 and have been doing business in the same location since that date. We have produced Western Silver Jewelry on site and we have also dealth directly with Navajo and Zuni Artisans to produce our designs offsite. We also carry quality Navajo and Zuni Silver Indian Jewelry and continuously work with Native American Jewelers to produce new and exciting pieces for our customers.

John and Estell Hartman were Jewelers and designed Jewelry for their Trading Post as well as many other companies such as the Fred Harvey Company, the May Company, ColdWater Creek, the Sundance Catalog, and many others. We have paid close attention to producing high quality Western Silver Jewelry that is unique and not produced by others. We have also focused on promoting and selling our Western Silver Jewelry by our own means to keep our sales situation unique for our customers, our customers get unique Western Silver Jewelry from our company that they cannot find elsewhere.

Durango Silver Company Trading Post This is a photo of our Trading Post which is located just west of Durango, Colorado USA on Hwy 160. This is the Hwy that runs east and west from Durango to Mesa Verde National Park, it was named the Gateway to Mesa Verde many years ago. John built this building in 1975-76 and the Trading Post opened for business in the spring of 1976. We have specialize in Western Silver Jewelry since we opened and have had many great years in business. We had two children, Dillon and Crystal, Dillon married Nattarika and they work with John and Estell full time running the Trading Post and managing DurangoSilver.com. Crystal works at the Trading Post part time and creates Western Silver Jewelry full time.

We invite you to read more about us and hope you will come and visit us if you come to this area.

Quality Mens Turquoise Rings

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

Turquoise Rings for Men

Durango Silver Company produces Quality Men’s Turquoise Rings

Durango Silver Company specializes in quality men’s Turquoise Rings, this is a blog on the different types of men’s Turquoise Rings that our company produces and/or handles. We have been making high quality men’s turquoise rings for forty years and have produced some of the finest quality Silver and Turquoise Rings for men that have come out of the Southwest in the past 40 years.

Men’s Turquoise Rings with Blue Turquoise are very popular for our company and Blue Turquoise predomanantly comes from Arizona, however, it also comes from Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Iran, China and Egypt. We primarily use authentic American Turquoise in our Mens Turquoise Rings but we seek and use high grade spiderweb turquoise from anywhere in the world for our special customers.

Men’s Turquoise Rings with Green Turquoise – Green Turquoise primarily comes from Nevada, however, it is also found in Colorado, New Mexico and China. We have a large amount of men that appreciate green turquoise and actually prefer it to blue, many men believe green turquoise has a more masculin appearance on a man the blue and it is more earthy looking. Green Turquoise Men’s Rings are awesome and the figuration in many of the green turquoise stones can be spectacular.

Silver Men’s Turquoise RingsSilver Men’s Rings with Turquoise are very popular for our company and they account for about 90% of the Men’s Turquoise Rings that we sell. Durango Silver Company is known for making quality and substancial men’s silver rings that stand out from all others on the market. We use heavy Silver and the finest quality turquoise in our Turquoise Mens Rings. Each mens turquoise rings is handcrafted and is a one of a kind, many men who buy a mens ring from our company end up buying a second and even a third ring as they love our mens turquoise rings that much!

Mens Turquoise Rings in Gold – We make many Gold Mens Turquoise Rings, however, they account for only 10% of our mens turquoise ring production. Gold mens turquoise rings from our company are also substancial in weight and incorporate our finest Turquoise gemstones, this makes our men’s gold rings expensive and not affordable for many. We are happy to make special order Mens Gold Turquoise Rings upon request.

Western Silver in a  Southwestern Style is what we are known for making in our Men’s Turquoise Rings. We invite you to take a look at what we presently have in stock by typing mens rings in the search box. Also check out our Design Portfolio to view some of the mens turquoise rings we have sold in the past. Also see our presentation  – “Mens Turquoise Rings