Est. Golden West — vintage Southwestern silver & turquoise, sun-baked stories from the American road.
For a few golden years in the 1970s, the whole country fell in love with the desert. Turquoise and silver — once known mostly to the Southwest — became the most wanted jewellery in America. This is the story of that boom, and why its spirit never really left. How a region became a craze…
If one piece says “Southwest” without a word, it is the squash blossom necklace — a great silver crescent hung with rows of blooming beads. It looks ancient and unmistakably American at once. Its real story is a journey across three continents. Reading the necklace Every squash blossom follows the same architecture: an inverted crescent…
In the American Southwest, jewellery was never only decoration. It was wealth you could wear, protection you could carry, and a story you could pass down. To understand a piece of vintage silver and turquoise is to understand a whole desert. Silver came on the trade winds The Navajo (Diné) began working silver only in…