Single Stone Split Wire Cuff with White Buffalo

Stamped “Francisco,” this native-made split wire cuff offers a classic look with a vertical oval stone. Crafted from three parallel, sterling silver “half round” wires that merge at their smoothly-tapered ends, the brushed silver and hand sawed scalloping around a simple bezel allow the white and black stone to do all the work.

Measures: Cuff tapers from 7/8" to 3/8" at the tips. Stones measures 3/4" x 1/2". Band measures 5 1/2" inside with a 1" gap.

Stone: The White Buffalo stone originates from the Tonopah Nevada area found in the same general veins as Dry Creek turquoise but has no copper content.  Considering this fact, it should therefore NOT be called “white, turquoise” as it does not have the same chemical composition as turquoise, which is a copper phosphate.  There is no copper to cause blue color or iron to cause green color.  It is a mostly clean white calcite/quartz mix with black chert inclusions (matrix) that are more sharply defined as opposed to being smutty.  The better stones have clear delineations of black and white.