Blue Turquoise Disc Beads - Graduated 8mm to 4mm agate and status

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Ideal for reselling or stringing

Tibet had it's own source of turquoise usually a green cast

and colours of the new Chinese pearls now surpass Biwa quality

it seems soft to the touch

Blue Turquoise Disc Beads - Graduated 8mm to 4mm agate and statusPrice is per 16 inch strand of these beautiful disc beads graduated from 8mm down to 4mm. Made from constituted Chinese turquoise. Chinese Turquoise is a soft, opaque gemstone. Ranging from blue green, to yellow green with grey, black or brown veining . Much Chinese turquoise was used for artistic carving and jewellery, which has always been popular in the Orient. In China, Turquoise dates to the thirteenth century A. D. Although most brought from