Bolo Tie hand crafted and stone that was cut and polished

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Bolo Tie hand crafted and stone that was cut and polished
My friend hand made these in his garage, he was a rock hound and loved crafting, I'm not sure what type of stone this is but I'm sure a collector will know.
It's been in a box for years, it's too nice to be stored in a box, beautiful piece to anyone's Bolo Tie rock hound collection.
The bolo tie was made the official
neckwear
of
Arizona
on April 22nd, 1971 by Governor
Jack Williams
.
New Mexico
passed a non-binding measure to designate the bolo as the state's official neckwear in 1987. On March 13, 2007,
New Mexico Governor
Bill Richardson
signed into law that the bolo tie was the
state's official tie
.
[2]
Also in 2007, the bolo tie was named the official tie of
Texas
.
[3]
In the
United Kingdom
, bolo ties are known as
bootlace ties
. They were popular with 1950s
Teddy Boys
, who wore them with
drape suits
.
[4]
[5]
Bolo ties became fashionable in the 1980s with
rockabilly revivalists
and
new wavers
.
[6]
The bolo tie returned as a popular fashion accessory in the fall of 1988 when male
Hollywood
stars
[
example needed
]
would be frequently found wearing them.
Chain stores
like
Jeanswest
and
Merry-Go-Round
sold multiple choices for all occasions.
During the 1980s and 1990s bolo ties, some elegant and expensive, were sold in
Japan
,
Korea
, and
China
. Some had fancy, hand-made cords and unusual tips. Sales overseas skyrocketed post-1970s; this was due to the overflow from the United States, where it had fallen out of fashion in the 1980s.
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