These are a few pieces that were passed down to me from my grandmother. I believe most are Navajo, but she doesn’t remember the stone types or who made them. I would love any info that I could pass along with these pieces to my kids in the future.
Thank you so much everyone!
Are there marks on the back of any? Without hallmarks (that’s what the artists’ mark is called) it will be nearly impossible to tell who made them. And as far as which mine all the turquoise came from, it’s always an educated guess without actual provenance from the maker. I will say the turquoise in the pendant on the beads has a Bisbee look, but no way to know 100%. There are a lot of items in this thread, so I’m not going try to cover everything. The ring with a missing stone also could be Zuni.
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I agree. Hard to determine specific mine. There is a thread here that shows turqupise from vrious mines. Check there and see if anything looks the same as your jewelry.
Please let us know if there are any marks on the backs.
I really like the ring with the flower in the middle. Have never seen anything like that before.
sharper focus pictures front, back including the chain & clasp needed.
Thank you so much. A few do have artist marks. I can post those on here or make another post so there is not so many photos of separate items.
Thank you I will check that post. I’ll make a separate post about anything that has markings on them that way it’s not so cluttered with photos.
I’ve never seen anything either, but it is nice touch to the ring.
I hope these are better pictures of the necklace. If not let me know I can do some better ones in the daylight.
This one has a Bell Trading Post mark. There is a lot of info about Bell online.
Link to a sold ring identicle to yours.
And another one for sale.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/145605640152
That’s awesome. I’ve never seen another one like it. Thank you for sharing those links.
I was doing some searching on the bell trading post. It looks like they had different marking styles over the years. I’m looking now to see if I find a decent page with addition information on them.
If I am reading correctly this would be an earlier piece because of the bell? And the couple had other artists making their jewelry for them…so were they native or just the makers?
Here is an article with some history of Bell.
Thank you. I see a few similar marks, but not mine. I’m going to try to image search it for a time frame on this ring.
1932-1961 is when that mark was used. I have a bracelet with the same mark.
a few near misses but no direct hits with this mark.
I did find a couple of very similar pieces but they lacked some of the smaller design elements on your pendant.
So this could be a mark? It’s just not visible enough?
