Vintage Green Eilat Silver Brooch

Beautiful WWII era brooch with a green Eilat cabochon. The rich greens of Eilat stone comes from it being a unique combination of various copper-bearing minerals including chrysocolla, malachite, azurite and turquoise. This stone is the national stone of Israel and known as King Solomon stone, as it comes from what is storied as King Solomon's mines in the Timna Valley of Israel.,