Here is my $1 find of the day. It does have a small crack from bending. I’ll have to get that soldered.
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You can’t beat thst price! Super nice find!
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$1?? Oh for crying out loud. Fantastic find! Love Hopi work.
Thinking this is one hallmark…
Wondering if the other is this? I had to turn your photo upside down.
Sorry the print is so small; it’s hard to photograph from a book sometimes.
Well now. If I would just bother to read what I photographed, it would make more sense. It says in the first picture that he used the initials early on, and that he worked at Hopicrafts. So there you go. I edited off the headings at the top of the columns in the first pic by accident. The 1974 date is when he started making jewelry, and that he switched to the other hallmark in '77.
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Who would sell that for $1?? The silver alone has to be worth $15. Good job BTW
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Thanks for the research @Ziacat and I just weighed it @nanc9354 , 22.8 grams. I was told it was their mothers and the crack was pointed out so must not have been worth much due to that 
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@StevesTrail
Well???
Are you gonna tell us where on earth you found this amazing bracelet for $1??
I’m super jealous
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Also, it p!sses me off when people bend bracelets and crack them.
Just sayin.
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In Maryland 
I agree on the bending. Now it will bother me and I may have to deal with repairing it.
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A friend of mine has two cuffs that he bent and cracked the stones and solder points.
One was inlay, and one was fancy with feathers and curly Qs etc.
Then he wanted me to fix them…
I said ‘no way Jose’, not fixable
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Smart move. A TIG spot weld would be the only way to go on that one. I’ll probably just leave this one alone for a while.
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Oh no! I never bend, because I also don’t want to loosen the stones. I had that happen with a cluster ring that some local jeweler shoved down a ring sizer to get the silver unflattened. Not long after I had a stone pop out.
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A friend who’s a serious, advanced Navajo jewelry collector was confident enough to try to hand-reshape a vintage bracelet of significant cost he had just bought. And broke it. He’d done it successfully numerous times before, but alas.
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Before shaping vintage sterling such as bracelets, they should be annealed first as long as there are no stones.
Oh no. Where’s the “dislike” button?
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I guarantee he disliked it! What a terrible outcome, huh.
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