Featured Pink glass Necklace signed L.T

This came from across the pond to the UK in a job lot and I don’t know what to make of it. Please have a look and see if the style is familiar?
The gems are glass.
It’s not silver but sort of looks quite nicely made.
It has a cheap chain that may or may not be contemporary.
The pendant has an odd fixing on the back and it’s signed L.T
Google has given me zip as the right search terms are evading me!
Any help would be welcome.
Thanks for looking

 

It definitely has some Native American in its ancestry somewhere. The chain is 1970s random costume but it might be worth testing the pendant. The bail looks like someone soldered on a bolo slide fitting sideways.

 

Thankyou!
I did wonder about NA but we get so little of it over here I don’t really know what I’m looking at.

 

The pink stones are what's throwing me, but they could be glass instead of coral or shell and it might well just be random Southwestern souvenir gear for all I know. The stone settings are right, and the leaves could be. The scrollwork is straight out of the Navajo playbook.

 

Could be Navajo jewelry maker Larry Tsinnie

 

Could be NA,looks like the stones were replaced.

 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/946776...GbDlhal80ZlB3SHM4UDZHanNHQSZ0PUFBQUFBR0JSS1Jv






~Cheryl

 

Might suggest testing, would suspect alpaca rather than silver...

~Cheryl

 

Wow! Cheryl Thankyou so much!. I’ve searched high and low and didn’t find anything. I’m not sure I get Etsy results on my searches so I must remember to look there in future.
It’s not silver so Alpaca makes sense.
Can I take the nasty chain off it and put a nice one on if it’s not original?

 

Just reread that. Opal? Really?

 

Eh, I had an idea of what it was so it came up right away - and personally, I'd get rid of the chain...

https://www.etsy.com/listing/975623...f=sr_gallery-1-1&organic_search_click=1&pro=1


It's a pretty inexpensive stone, does turn up in NA jewelry occasionally, but this piece didn't look quite right for NA.


~Cheryl

 

I’ll google him.
Thankyou

 

A quick google looks like it’s a strong possibility. Unless everyone has copied each other’s attribution!.

 

Flaming heck, HOW are you finding this stuff? I'm using the wrong search terms.

 

I’ve not come across pink Opal before, just assumed it was glass as didn’t look right for quartz.
Do you think that seller is correct saying it represents Squash blossom? I’ll go and google that too as no idea what the flower looks like.

 

Me or Cheryl?

 

Ummm, sorry, should have made it very clear that your piece is not NA, it does not have Larry Tsinnie's mark or any other NA craftsman's - it is Mexican. Personally wouldn't consider it a squash blossom necklace, and the seller has some other problems in their listing...


Squash blossom necklaces: https://www.google.com/search?q=gen...pXXxSwgiwQ:1615938989334&source=lnms&tbm=isch


~Cheryl

 

Is this the flower? Why so popular in NA jewellery?

 

Ah, ok, I never know how much to believe of other peoples adverts!.

 

https://www.garlandsjewelry.com/blogs/news/the-squash-blossom-necklace


~Cheryl