BLACK HILLS GOLD JEWELRY

Black Hills Gold jewelry is an original American art formThorpe Company and the Black Hills Jewelry
created in the 1870's in the Black Hills of South Dakota.Manufacturing Company. In 1944 Ivan Landstrom
The design utilizes leaves, grape clusters and vines,bought the Black Hills Jewelry Manufacturing Company
made from "pink gold" and "green gold", to surroundand in 1995 Black Hills Gold history went full circle when
the main focal point of each piece. The pink color isLandstrom's acquired the F.L. Thorpe Company
made by combining gold with copper, and the delicatemaking Landstrom's the sole owner of all the original
green color is achieved by adding sterling silver withBlack Hills Gold designs.
gold.No two pieces of Landstrom's Original Black Hills Gold
By law, any piece of jewelry bearing the descriptionjewelry are alike as each is hand made. Each piece of
"Black Hills Gold" must be manufactured in the BlackLandstrom's jewelry reflects great pride in
Hills of South Dakota.craftsmanship by talented artisans with skills taught by
While there are several manufacturers of authentictheir predecessors over 100 years ago. Landstrom's
Black Hills Gold jewelry, Landstrom's is the oldest andhas been admired and sought after for over a century.
most famous. Landstrom's roots date back to 1878Gypsies traveling through South Dakota in the 1950's
when S.T. Butler, trained by French prospector andstarted a legend which says, "To one who wears the
goldsmith Henri LeBeau, opened the first Black HillsBlack Hills Gold, good luck and fortune will unfold."
Gold jewelry manufacturing store with his son, GeorgeFor more information on Black Hills Gold and Black Hills
M. Butler in Deadwood, South Dakota. In 1919, theGold Jewelry please review one of these links.
company was divided into two companies, the F.L.