Help with a pendant

No markings but it’s been tested and it’s sterling. Is it turquoise? any clue about who made it...anything???

I have a bug jewelry fetish. Lol I think they are neat !
So if anyone Comes across anything cool and AFFORDABLE lmk!

 

Somebody made this out of the bowl of a spoon and it could be sterling but it could also be silver plated. What was the method of testing?

 

Pretty sure that's the 1847 Rogers silverplate 'Silver Lace' pattern, introduced in 1968...

~Cheryl

 

The bug was a pin or an earring with the back broken off. Someone got creative.

 

Cheryl is right about the pattern. Silver Lace, a silver plate pattern.

See the bottom of the left-hand column on this page. https://www.sterlingflatwarefashions.com/SPPatterns/1847Rogers5.html

You can see some of lacy tracery in the picture of the back of the pendant on what was the handle of the spoon.

 

Is that just a narrower part of the shank, 'cuz they don't look identical, to me, but do look similar........??

 

From just above the bowl on the stem:




~Cheryl

 

It was bought at an estate sale listed as sterling (the spoon). The bug is silver plated

 

But unfortunately, it is not sterling silver, it is silverplate...

~Cheryl

 

The spoon isn’t sterling??

 

How do you know?

 

As already said, it's the cut-off and repurposed bowl of a silverplate pattern spoon, with a cute, also repurposed, costume jewelry bug...

~Cheryl

 

That's what I would have said. The pattern was only made in silverplate and that bug was never made in anything but costume form. Anyone selling either as silver was either ignorant or deliberately misleading.

 

Yes she sold it to me as sterling

 

I think it's a cute and unusual thing ... and hope you enjoy wearing it!

 

don't trust her.........