Antique jewelry glossary

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Turquoise matrix

The brown-veined stone in which turquoise is found and with which the turquoise is sometimes cut as a gemstone.

From: An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry, autor: Harold Newman, publishers: Thames and Hudson