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- Identifying Your Navajo, Hopi, Zuni Jewelry, Plus Maker
The free form shaped stone on the left is usually a Navajo made giveaway Plus, coral and turquoise is found made by both Navajo Zuni artists, but definitely favored to the Navajo Zuni left, Navajo right The Navajo piece is easy to identify, big, heavy, and a nice free form shaped stone
- Cleaning Turquoise and silver jewlery
Turquoise and malachite will absorb liguids if the turquoise is not “stablilzed” (Impregnated with plastic resins) and can be damaged by cleaners For these stones it is best to use a soft toothbrush and warm water to clean and dry immediately The same goes for shell material
- Identifying Squash Blossom Necklace - Value Opinions - Turquoise People
Production piecework handmade squash, using fairly low quality stabilized turquoise stones Likely Navajo Commercially produced standard bench beads This piece was likely made along with a batch order of several other nearly identical pieces The workmanship is very good, especially for a sqash of this type The silversmith was a professional and it shows in the work 9 Likes Cheryl
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- Help? Squash Blossom Necklace - Turquoise People
The turquoise is inexpensive treated stone, probably Kingman, and at the time would have been considered near bottom shelf in terms of price and quality These were usually delivered unstrung, with the stringing taking place in the shop or trading company which commissioned the work
- Turquoise pendant hallmarked LL
The turquoise pendant is nice, but pretty generic in terms of the style No telling who made it or where it was made The comment about block lettering stamps is on the money Without provenance, the maker and even country of origin remains anyone’s guess
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- I have a very unique and strange Squash Blossom necklace
I wonder if anyone can give me a clue to where start looking for information on my necklace It is an unusual item Here are some features: 30" in length 1 75lbs in weight The majority of the beads are belled silver coins Barrel shaped Turquoise beads Seven (7) firearm triggers used as squash blossoms Maker’s Mark is D My Dad found this necklace at an antique mall shop in Tucson, AZ He had
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