Re: Page Jewelry

[Lif Strand <lif.strand@xxxxxxxxx>]

Flawless inlays have been the norm for a long, long time.  Zuni 
jewelers have been doing it for nearly a century, and inlay 
techniques have been used in China, Arabic countries and India for 
centuries.  No reason for there *not* to be flawless inlay cuts on 
something Mr. Page ordered.

That said, looking at the pendent closely, I'm not sure that's 
actually inlay.  I'm wondering if maybe it is actually a form of 
cloissone (another technique that has been around for 
centuries).  Reason is because inlay is kind of like stained glass - 
individual colors can't just "float" in a background because glass is 
too brittle to just cut a design into it, particularly pointy edges 
like in the pendent.  Turquoise is pretty darned brittle, even when 
stabilized.  So not likely inlay but maybe the JP design was routed 
into a piece of stabilized turquoise, then the resulting "gutter" 
filled with maybe ground lapis (or some other stone) in resin.

I'm no jeweler but it seems like someone more into it would be able 
to identify the technique.  Personally, I'd want better 
authentication than that letter - either something from Mr. Page or 
from the jeweler.  Anyway, not challenging your calling BS on it, but 
questioning that it really is inlay.



At 11:42 AM 7/23/2013, Jeff Strawman wrote:
> I'm going to go ahead and call BS on this. Those are some pretty 
> flawless inlay cuts made on something 40 years ago.

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