Featured What are your thoughts on this silver necklace?

I’m always late to the party lol but I would have grabbed it and ASSUMED it to be 40s (maybe 50s) Navajo and very nicely made although as everyone has said,IMO this piece was made for resale to non NA visitors. Wild that it was bought in France.The turquoise looks good to me too!

How does tagging work? Shouldn’t I get an email that AJ tagged me? Just saw this now. Waving at all!

 

I've never gotten an email to inform me of a "tag." But that's probably because I turned off almost all the email notice options very soon after joining. Instead of an email, I normally get an alert once I'm on the site, included in the little red number in the upper right corner. But I did recently notice a tag for which I was not alerted (and I've seen others mention not getting notice of tags recently.) Maybe that's what happened with you, @reader .

 

Tagging shows up in ALERTS for me,I think I have e-mail turned off.

 

That’s a charming story but incorrect info. The term Concho or Concha was derived from the round conch shell shape that NA tribes appropriated probably from Mexican saddlery trims. It’s traditionally a round or oval shape although today the term covers belts with square and rectangular shapes too. (The shape is used for earrings, pins, etc. although most commonly associated w belts and first worn as hair ornaments. Unless your mother’s piece had the specific concha shape (popsycat’s doesn’t) then it’s not a concha but your mom can call it whatever she liked! The original round Conchos were made from melted coins. Concho Belts are my personal faves. I wear them a lot. Here’s IMO a great history of the Concha from Garlands (one of my fave NA dealers-I visit them at least once a year.
https://www.garlandsjewelry.com/blogs/news/80431875-a-history-of-navajo-concha-belts

Funny NOW I see an alert. I need to check settings! Thanks!

 

I will always remain a member of the club that one can’t identify turquoise unless they were standing at the vein when it came out but then again, I respect Holly’s feeling that you can’t identify jewelry as NA unless it’s signed or you saw it being made but I definitely slide on that one and go by gut feelings.

 

Just want to add that I go by gut feelings for my own collecting. I do believe that we need more than gut feelings to sell so that’s probably going to be a nightmare for my executor when I pass but oh well!