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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 9470649, member: 2844&quot;]Gorgeous chunk of turquoise with some pyrite inclusions, and it looks good on you.</p><p>Not marked means older, vintage. Vintage NA jewellery is rarely marked.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would say yours is Navajo and 1970s, maybe early 80s, before pieces were generally marked.</p><p><br /></p><p>Old Pawn or Dead Pawn refers to pawned jewellery that wasn&#039;t redeemed, and could be sold after a certain amount of time. Those are always pieces that were worn by the Navajo and other tribespeople themselves.</p><p>Because they generally couldn&#039;t get bank loans, especially the Navajo, they pawned their jewellery if they needed money. That jewellery was often big and chunky, but not all big and chunky pieces were pawned, most were made to be sold to non-Navajo.</p><p>So, while a stunning piece, no indication it is Old Pawn.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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