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Rare Old Pawn 1920s Navajo Natural Turquoise Tooled 925 Silver Horse Brooch Pin For Sale
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NOTE:::... Natural Turquoises, Shells, Gemstones and Coral are very difficult
to photograph to Perfect Life Like, because the lights can penetrate somewhat into them and
the
different types of lights used can createmany different slight color
tones and
huesof them in the photos, so I cannot and will not try to say an exact
color of the item being sold because, the cameras, bright
lights, backgrounds,
foregroundsand computer monitors and moving the item around to
photograph it can
also distort the actual Life Like color tones and hues, and it may be the color your
seeing on
your computer monitor when you get it or it may be a lighter or darker
color, tone or hue when you get it from what your seeing on your computer monitor,
also the
angle of which your looking at a computer monitor can also change the color, color
tones and
hues of an items color your looking at, Thanks.Throughout
our Indian lands the trading posts
serve also as pawn shops with the trader usually involved in an earthy
form of
banking business - part of the process known as pawning...... Most
Hopi, Zuni and Navajo reservation
Indians (The BIG Three) and many other Traders converted their turquoise
and silverjewelry into
cash....... When in need of money or commodities their assets are used
as
securities for loans......... At times the trading post vault is the
safest
place in which to keep valuables........ In this case theNative
Americanpawns their items for a minimum loan of cashand is happy to
pay the
interest rate in return for the security of his goods...... If
articles are
not redeemed after the contractual length of time, it becomes " Old Pawn " and
may be sold by the pawn shop trader for whatever the market will
allow.
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The
US 25 cent Coin piece (A Quarter) is used for a quick simple comparison of item,
so you can get an IDEA of the size, the quarter measures: 24mm in diameter,
thats also 15/16", just a hair under an inch, the Actual Sizes are listed in the
description.COMBINING sales = is FREE
Payments are due within 2 to 3 Days of end of sale when paying through PayPal.... We
send our invoices right away so you can make payment on time.
SHIPPING COSTS: Email us for International
shipping costs, please include your country name
and Refund Policy. If we have Grossly misrepresented an item, we will refund 100% of your
PURCHASE PRICE, plus the amount of money it took you to send the item back, All
other returns will be charged a 20% restocking fee, and
shipping/handling/insurance are Not-refunded, make sure you want the item and read
everything before you commit yourself to this sale. NO RETURNS WITHOUT PRIOR
APPROVAL VIA EMAIL, DO NOT Just send the item or items back without us first
communicating.. NO refunds will be approved after this 14 day time frame. All
items returned must be in the Condition they left us in and with all the Gem
Materials, Watches, Chain Bales, Necklace Latches and so on intact, it needs to
be returned with all it was send out with, and not cleaned or polished or no
refund is possible.
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, we use the email
system.ThanksOrigin of the items we sell....... Most Jewelry is purchased
because the buyer loves the look of an item, and it is a personal preference,
and some are sought after by collectors, but it is the Buyers sole
responsibility to Actually know what they are purchasing, and do their own
research, as we can only give the information that we gathered when we purchased
the items, we cannot verify our information in our descriptions due to many
different circumstances, like ........ the person who had them in an estate was
the only surviving spouse and they don't know the information about the items,
or the information is given by an estate executor who had the items looked at by
a professional, or did their own research, or a large group of jewelry was
purchased from a Dead Pawn or Old Pawn Collection purchase, sales or
individually purchased from other collectors, and a lot of items are already
tagged with information by the previous owners or estate personnel, if items
have sales tags or inked writing on them we remove these tags or writing on the
items most of the time before we sell them, or the Gallery or Person it came
from gave us the information we use, or was made by, we also cannot verify the
exact age of items, or any hallmarks, or who had them first, second, third and
so on on these old items unless signed with full name of silversmith.
We try our very best to give you all the information we have gathered,
and have purchased many Native American Indian Identification Books on the
Makers and Hallmarks of their Jewelry, and use the internet to do research on
these items, and use that information we researched, in addition to the
information we have been given. We give all that information we know on an item
in our sale descriptions, and we thank all the other ers out there who
also take the time to let use know more about an item we may not know about, so
if you see an item that has information you feel is incorrect, or can give us
more information on it, please email us, or call us about that information you
have, we never intentionally misrepresent anything we sell, and will always do
our best to bring you the information we gathered about that item, we are not
experts by any means.
NOTICE TO BUYERS ABOUT CERTIFICATES AND HALLMARKING DATES FOR NATIVE AMERICAN and OTHER ETHNIC
JEWELRY:
I have had time to
search around in the Native American and other Ethnic Jewelry category's and see
there are some things that need to be said about Certificates and Hallmark
Dating, we have had a couple ers even ask why we don't give certificates
with our jewelry, here is the truth about certificates of authenticity, first of
all this certificate needs to come from and be signed by the person who made the
piece, not signed by the second party selling the piece who didn't make the
item, thats why we don't give certs, because we don't have any from the
smiths..... Dating pieces by hallmarks is another thing I see others are saying
all items made before 1970s will not be signed and will not have a sterling
benchmark, WELL, thats not correct, and the proof is in the historic registers
of hallmarks that can be found in the hallmark books, there are some Native
Americans who signed there pieces as far back as 1920's and some even earlier,
and the benchmark Sterling has been stamped on pieces since the late 1800s and
earlier, please don't take my word for it, go look it up yourself, I looked it
up so I could help the community know the truth, I am putting this info in
our sale pages to help the buyers know the real story, and since we sell
mostly Southwestern Indian Jewelry this needed to be said, there is no way
anyone before us could of got a certificate from these silversmiths back them,
they were not even needed or knew about back then, and we don't make or give
certificates unless they came directly from the silversmith, a true Certificate
of Authenticity comes from the silversmith and signed by the silversmith, not a
second
party.
ADDITIONAL VERY
IMPORTANT INFO ON CERTIFICATES OF AUTHENTICITY FOR NATIVE AMERICAN and OTHER
ETHNIC JEWELRY.
has updated its policy's incorporating the Indian Arts and Crafts Act to
make sure the pieces being sold are true Native American Zuni, Hopi and Navajo
items, as these 3 tribes have the most jewelry listed on , and there are
many other tribes as well " If you are listing a piece of art or craft work
that you are describing as "Native American", "American Indian", "Indian" or
"Alaska Native," or the product ofa particular Indian Tribe or Alaska Native
Village, please note that under the Indian Arts and Crafts Act, such items must
be made by an enrolled member of a federally, or officially State-recognized
American Indian or Alaska Native Village or by an individual certified as an
Indian artisan by the governing body of one of these groups. The most common
fake made jewelry is that of the Zuni and Navajo.... By using these
descriptions in your listings, you are certifying that you have exercised due
diligence in determining that the items are accurately described under the
Indian Arts and Crafts Act.
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We at painted-sky do our very best
andexercise due diligence when we go on our buying trips to always ask many
questions about the pieces we buy, and try to find out all we can about the
pieces, not only to make sure they are genuine Native Made, but the more info we
get, we can pass that on to the buyers and it may evenhelp sell the piece at a
better fare price, and it helps educate the community.... Even when we are
buying directly from the silversmith who made the piece, they don't give
certificates of authenticity, most of the time when you see a C.O.A. its on a
piece of jewelry in a high end gallery or museum collectible, thats why getting
these C.O.A.'s on are mostly not true certificates, and as you can see we
specialize in the old pawn vintage Native American Jewelry, and they didn't give
any Certificates back then, and thats another reason why we don't have them and
we will not give out some bogus piece of paper saying we purchased it from so
and so and we authenticate this piece for them, thats not a Certificate of
Authenticity, so make sure you ask about the certificate before assuming its
from the actual person who made
it.
OLD PAWN NATIVE AMERICAN
JEWELRY RARELY EVER HAS A CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY THAT COMES FROM THE PERSON
WHO MADE THEM, BECAUSE IT WOULD HAVE TO BE OBTAINED AT THE TIME THE PIECE WAS
MADE AND SOLD, NOT LATER ON, AND THAT CERTIFICATE PASSED ON WITH THE PIECE FROM
OWNER TO OWNER.... I SEE SELLERS TELLING YOU TO NOT BUY UNLESS YOU HAVE A
CERTIFICATE, WELL, YOU HAVE THE ANSWER ABOVE, THIS IS JUST TO HELP YOU OUT SO
WHEN YOU COME ACROSS A SELLER WHO IS TRYING TO SCARE YOU OUT OF BUYING FROM
OTHERS ERS THAT DON'T GIVE CERTIFICATES, YOU NOW KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT
CERTIFICATES AND WHERE THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO COME FROM, I WOULD BE A LITTLE LEARY
ABOUT BUYING FROM ANYONE WHO OFFERS CERTIFICATES ON ALL THE THINGS THEY SELL,
UNLESS THE CERTIFICATE COMES FROM THE PERSON WHO MADE THE PIECE, I HOPE THIS
HELPS YOU IN THE FUTURE NO MATTER WHERE YOU BUY FROM, ALWAYS ASK
QUESTIONS.
Thanks - painted
sky.Just a little about our
experience in this field of Native American Jewelry. We have lived and worked
in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Utah and Colorado, I used to work in the
turquoise and copper mines in Arizona for 12 years Tunneling in Texas 10 years,
Mining in Colorado 15 years and have been around turquoise jewelery over 45
years, so it is not something new to me or my wife, although we don't know it
all, we do have a great understanding about it and collecting it, and have an
extensive Rare Library of the old collectors books and unpublished magazines
and manuscripts on the subject which helps us learn and understand more each
day. Although we live in Alabama right now, we still travel to the southwestern
states scouring North, South, East and West of each state, up and down the old
untraveled back roads no one else does, finding forgotten mine sites and rare
minerals and have a great reputation with some of the oldest Indian trading
posts in the southwest and with the Individual Native Americans them selves, so
you may know you are buying from a very experienced collector of Native American
Indian Jewelry, which you can see by the unusual and unique items we bring to
, and have done so for over 10 years, longer than most of the sellers
selling Native American New Jewelry now, and we sell Turquoise Jewelry
necklaces, rings bolos belt buckles, bracelets, and, Kachinas, Pottery, Rugs,
Blankets, Art Work and more, if you have any questions, or looking for that
special piece to fulfill your collection, please feel free to email us and let
us know.
Alabama Residents must pay the additional 4% Tax on all
Sales.
If you live outside the U.S.A.
, please email me for shipping/handling charges, Please include your country
address, and the item number(s).
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