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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 1094597, member: 2844&quot;]And me three.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>The Navajo were already making silver souvenirs for the soldiers at Fort Defiance in the 1870s. I think this would be 1920s-30s.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know I have said it several times before, but I will get on that soapbox again.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>The problem with the current US legislation is that NA silver isn&#039;t allowed to be called NA if it doesn&#039;t have a maker&#039;s mark. That means that NA silver is being denied its roots, since marking is a relatively late thing in NA silver. The Native identity of the old time makers is not acknowledged, which to me amounts to denial of the cultural core of the individual and the heritage of his/her nation.</p><p>Meanwhile general SW style jewellery and Asian fakes with fake maker&#039;s marks are sold as NA jewellery. After all, they are marked....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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