Tiffany, the world-famous adornment aggregation has able ties to New Mexico, and those ties are a allotment of the surprises apprehension visitors to the New Mexico History Museum, aperture May 24. That is a azure far and abroad the finest in America, and it came from these new mines in New Mexico. It is account $4,000. … (I)t is apparent that gems to the amount of $200,000 a year may be acquired from this mine.
Santa Fe, NM (Vocus/PRWEB ) May 20, 2009 -- What does ultra-chic Tiffany's accept in accepted with New Mexico? More than you'd expect. From late-1800s Tiffany-blue azure to a amazing aboriginal 20th- aeon argent service, Tiffany's ties to New Mexico are a allotment of the surprises apprehension visitors to the New Mexico History Museum, aperture May 24.
For the Tiffany tales' beginnings, go aback to 1837, if Charles Lewis Tiffany founded Tiffany and Young, a fine-goods bazaar that alien a atypical abstraction of the time: the basic affairs price. In that aforementioned year, Tiffany alien the acclaimed "Tiffany Blue Box" - a admired brand of Tiffany & Co.
In 1889, George F. Kunz, the company's acclaimed gemologist, won an accolade in Paris for a accumulating that absolute a sample of New Mexico turquoise. In 1892, Kunz appear that assertive colors of azure had appear to be advised "gem quality" - namely, the Tiffany Blue color. According to a New York newspaper: "That is a azure far and abroad the finest in America, and it came from these new mines in New Mexico. It is account $4,000. … (I)t is apparent that gems to the amount of $200,000 a year may be acquired from this mine." Clearly, Kunz had accustomed the possibilities of added branding the Tiffany Blue blush by advancement almost-exclusive rights to the azure he fabricated al of a sudden valuable.
In that aforementioned year, 1892, James P McNulty came to Cerrillos, N.M., to abundance turquoise, eventually landing with the American Turquoise Company, which endemic the claims to a amount of mines. The azure mined in Cerrillos at the time was of a actual specific color, Tiffany Blue; and the ATC awash about all of its azure anon to Tiffany & Co.
The 66 years New Mexico spent as a Territory of the United States were turbulent. The Territory was apparitional by the Civil War, Indian raids, political bulldozing, and characters like Billy the Kid. McNulty's years alive for the Tiffany mines in New Mexico created their own allotment of unruliness, including rattlesnakes, explosives, backward bacon payments, Indian attacks and, affliction of all, lawyers.
In 1896, McNulty encountered a accumulation of four men on the mine's grounds, claiming to be picnicking. He accosted them, and escorted them from the property. One of these men, Mariano F. Sena, anon filed a affirmation in the bounded courts, adage the abundance was allotment of an old Spanish acreage grant, and that the ATC had to abandon and pay him $50,000. The accusation abject on until 1911, if it was assuredly bound by the U.S. Supreme Court. By then, the ATC had spent so abundant of its profits on acknowledged fees that debt began a apathetic suffocation, finishing the aggregation off in 1917.
McNulty connected to baby-sit the operation of his own mines in Cerrillos until his afterlife in 1933, frequently accepting the alone being to in actuality abundance the stone. Through his career, he beatific amaranthine cigar boxes arranged with azure to Tiffany & Co., until the abundance was assuredly exhausted. (Most azure acclimated in the Native American adornment awash on the Plaza today comes from adjacent Arizona, but a few baby claims are still mined in New Mexico today.)
Tiffany & Co.'s affiliation to New Mexico doesn't end there. In 1918, the accompaniment of New Mexico presented a 56-piece Tiffany argent account set to the battleship USS New Mexico. The set contains a alembic in the appearance of a pueblo-style building, as able-bodied as a amount of plates, anniversary of which has a altered arena - Coronado's Expedition 1540-42; San Miguel Chapel - Oldest Church in the US; and the First Locomotive through Raton Pass - 1879.
The USS New Mexico served as the aboriginal flagship of the United States Pacific Fleet, and was a basic allotment of U.S. operations in the Pacific Theater of WWII. After the battleship was decommissioned in 1946, the account was acclimated on the carrier Midway and the flat-top Bon Homme Richard afore it was donated to the Palace of the Governors. For the aboriginal time in decades, the account will be on affectation at the New Mexico History Museum, bare two plates. Those plates, depicting the Santa Fe Trail and Taos Pueblo, will be loaned to the U.S. Navy for affectation on the new Virginia-class abysmal New Mexico, to be commissioned in October 2009.
With an all-encompassing accumulating of artifacts, bolstered by multimedia installations and absolute belief of humans - from miners, cowboys, and gunslingers to the adventurous men and women who accept served in our nation's armed armament - the New Mexico History Museum brings activity to the history of New Mexico. Get into it! Discover the history of the accompaniment at the aperture of the New Mexico History Museum Memorial Day weekend.
New Mexico History Museum
at 113 Lincoln Avenue, just abaft the Palace of the Governors on the Santa Fe Plaza
Media Contacts:
Kate Nelson
New Mexico History Museum
505 476 1141
www.nmhistorymuseum.org
Rachel Mason
Ballantines PR
505 216 0889
www.ballantinespr.com
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