Featured Newer Southwest or NA necklace. Any help with maker's stamp?

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  1. Lucille.b

    Lucille.b Well-Known Member

    Anyone recognize this maker's mark on this vintage (or newer) necklace? Thanks!

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    (That isn't tarnish on the right, it's a bad reflection, photo below.)

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  2. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    It is a beauty.:) I have to go now, but if someone hasn't found the mark when I check back tomorrow, I will look in my books.
     
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  3. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    nice silver casting.....
    funny though , that while it looks SW ....it doesn't look SW....to me.
     
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  4. Lucille.b

    Lucille.b Well-Known Member

    That would be so helpful, thank you. :)

    I know zero about the origin of this. Was an estate purchase. Finding that maker might answer a lot.

    AJ, and Komokwa, thanks for the help.
     
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  5. i need help

    i need help Moderator Moderator

    I searched Amerindian picto marks and didn't see it.
     
  6. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    It's not a Native design, but the materials and the mark look right. So...no idea.
     
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  7. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    thus the quizzled look on my face.......:wacky:
     
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  8. all_fakes

    all_fakes Well-Known Member

    Wondering if it might be India or Pakistan, or somewhere in the Middle East, rather than SW Native American...
     
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  9. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    Matches mine every time I listen to USA political party loyalists of any stripe.

    The mark is script and spells out "sterling". I've never seen that anywhere but a USAian NA mark post-WWII. Maybe a Zuni smith made what he or she thought was a good tourist piece.
     
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  10. i need help

    i need help Moderator Moderator

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  11. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    ummm all the pics there....are ours..!:confused::confused::confused:
     
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  13. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    Not the same smith, but similar designs.
     
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  14. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    interesting ........ the stones are mounted very differently than Luci's
     
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  15. reader

    reader Well-Known Member

    Really nice. Skimmed my older Hougart’s and didn’t find it but maybe AJ will. I’d buy it as 90s forward Navajo.
     
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  16. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

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    I'd leave it for someone else.....
     
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  17. reader

    reader Well-Known Member

    No personal interest in it but meant that I think it’s legit and NA. I don’t collect newer NA but at the right price I think it’s salable.
     
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  18. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    ok, I get that......

    but legit or not......after seeing the top one I posted.....the other has no interest to me at all....
     
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  19. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Didn't find the mark either, but I'm with reader, likely post-90 Navajo.
    Ditto. It is a very attractive and wearable piece, attribution or not.:)
     
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  20. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    I’ve seen a fair few NA pieces with that script Sterling mark.
     
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