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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 624203, member: 2844&quot;]Welcome Kathy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Although older NA jewellery is often called Old Pawn by some sellers, this necklace is not actually Old Pawn. Because others who may be new to NA jewellery also read these threads, we usually explain the term to avoid confusion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Old Pawn was part of the Navajo financial system. Navajo couldn&#039;t get bank loans so they invested in silver and turquoise when times were good, to pawn them when they needed a loan. Which is why the pieces they pawned always had a substantial weight in silver and turquoise. Those were the chunky pieces they wore themselves.</p><p>With many pieces we will never know if they were Old Pawn, others come with provenance.</p><p>The delicate design of this necklace speaks against it being Old Pawn. As you said, it is likely to be 1940s-50s tourist trade item.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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