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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Joan, post: 9576516, member: 5398&quot;]Thanks, [USER=1496]@Hollyblue[/USER], for pointing out the solder. I didn&#039;t want to scrape the rounded sides of the beads since the seam wore down more then I expected when I scraped it on the bisque box. I decided to do some reading on soldering silver, and learned that soldering causes sterling to soften because of the heat. So, if that&#039;s true, I probably shouldn&#039;t scrape the beads on a testing stone.</p><p><br /></p><p>The marks you&#039;re seeing on the cones are just little stamped squares, and the seams look like they&#039;re just sort of overlapped. I tested the cones and they didn&#039;t test as silver. [Later addition] I looked at the cones again with a magnifying glass, and they are soldered, not overlapped, but there&#039;s kind of a gap in the soldered seam.</p><p><br /></p><p>The necklace beads look more crudely-made than other similar necklaces I&#039;ve seen online where the beads look more refined and uniform. Could that mean my necklace may not be Navajo?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]461333[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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