
Custom cut and wire wrapped Hokie Stone Earrings from the Pink Quarry VA Tech earrings in Sterling Silver .935 size 37 x 10mm or 1 7/16 x 3/8 inches These are unpolished to look more like the buildings. One of a kind jewelry for the graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
We have 2 blocks one from the pink quarry and one from the gray quarry at Virginia Tech and are honored to be able to provide our jewelry to all who love VA Tech. Nation. The picture's of Buildings to show the variation of the stone on the buildings.
Facilities Services has operated a university owned quarry since 1869. The ashlar patterned stone facades (Hokie Stone) used on campus buildings are constructed of native limestone quarried and surfaced by Facilities Services personnel. Virginia Tech's local quarry produces 25 to 50 tons of stone each week to support the supply for new buildings on campus.
This is a video that was professionally done for us on what we do with our jewelry by Shenandoah Living Magazine please check it out: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Treasure-Tree-Jewelry-Robert-Mary-McIntire/84497959729?ref=hl#!/photo.php?fbid=10151790575894730&set=a.10151509202784730.1073741840.84497959729&type=3&theater
Facilities Services has operated a university-owned quarry since 1869. The ashlar patterned stone facades (Hokie Stone) used on campus buildings are constructed of native limestone quarried and surfaced by Facilities Services personnel. Virginia Tech's local quarry produces 25 to 50 tons of stone each week to support the supply for new buildings on campus.