Featured NA pendant?

Discussion in 'Jewelry' started by Potteryplease, May 18, 2025.

  1. Potteryplease

    Potteryplease Well-Known Member

    I'm hoping this is a Native American pendant, perhaps Hopi, but so far I haven't found a similar mark.

    Thanks for any help.

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  2. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    nothing I know of..:sorry:
     
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  3. bosko69

    bosko69 Well-Known Member

    Lovely piece, sorry can't help authenticate.
     
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  4. Roaring20s

    Roaring20s Well-Known Member

    My search only found your source ...
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  5. Roaring20s

    Roaring20s Well-Known Member

    Last edited: May 18, 2025
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  6. Potteryplease

    Potteryplease Well-Known Member

    I think that's it @Roaring20s! Thank you!

    So, the THA mark is the shop mark and the other mark is the artist/artisan.

    Thanks again.
     
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  7. Roaring20s

    Roaring20s Well-Known Member

    No, this is how I'm interpreting it, this view and the red oval is the shop mark.
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    Last edited: May 18, 2025
  8. Potteryplease

    Potteryplease Well-Known Member

  9. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Hopicrafts was not a shop, but an initiative. A bit like the "Hopi Silvercraft Cooperative Guild", which was founded about 15 years earlier, only more modest in its set up.
     
  10. Curioser

    Curioser Well-Known Member

    I'm impressed with the collective knowledge of the group! I would not have seen "HC" in the mark but it matches the Hopi Crafts symbol.
     
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  11. bosko69

    bosko69 Well-Known Member

    I would've had a tough time deciphering that symbol. May I ask how you saw 'HC' in that Roaring ?
    To me it almost looks like a hybrid of cuneiform & Chinese...and brainy folks here (as opposed to many forums)-actually give you the time of day. No offense 'Asian Art Forum'.
     
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  12. Roaring20s

    Roaring20s Well-Known Member

    Sometimes I can see abstract stuff like that, just not this time.

    I first thought it was Japanese, so I turned the text vertical for a translation, and nothing. But, one of the images in that image search had something like it next to a silversmith mark. I followed that path to learn more.

    Many here may know how to get different results from image searching. After searching the entire image, search different details from the same image. I have also removed busy backgrounds and searched again.
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  13. bosko69

    bosko69 Well-Known Member

    Thanks for the tips Roar-a visual dissection & process of elimination.
     
  14. Figtree3

    Figtree3 What would you do if you weren't afraid?

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