Antique 1920's Native American Sterling Silver Signed Bisbee Turquoise Bracelet!

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Antique 1920's Native American Sterling Silver Signed Bisbee Turquoise Bracelet! Bracelet Size: The bracelet gap measures just under 1 and 1/4 of an inch long. The bracelet circumference measures 5 and 1/2 inches not including the gap. Bracelet Style & Stone(s): The stone in this beautiful and unbelievably rare bracelet is called Bisbee Turquoise. Bisbee turquoise is probably the most sought after turquoise out there at the moment. It is famous for it's green to dark blue colors mixed with coppery brown matrix and sometimes quartz. The green Bisbee turquoise is by far the most rare of it's colors and most sought after. Fortunately this beautiful stone is just that, Beautiful Green color mixed with brown copper matrix and slight hints of quartz! The stone does have one slight flaw where it was polished down and left rough in a few spots, this led to a slight 2 cm crack towards the bezel. It isn't noticeable and has been stabilized, no risk of losing this stone! Beautiful hand hammered silver work. This bracelet was most likely made out of old U.S. silver coins back in the 20's as that was the easiest way to get the guaranteed metal purity that you needed to make sterling jewelry! The artist would roll out the coins and shape the heated metal into what he wanted! Beautiful hand carved old time Navajo stamp work along the sides of this bracelet, not like the machine made stamps today! This bracelet is by far the most impressive older Navajo bracelet i've ever seen! It's hard to find antique Native American jewelry such as this in this good of condition, especially from the 20's when it wasn't widely made or traded! They have been melted, broken, and just simply lost with time, this is a true treasure! Bracelet Markings: The bracelet is not marked sterling, however as stated below has been tested as such. Thde bracelet is signed by the artist, this is very VERY rare for a bracelet of this age to be signed, one of the very few i've ever seen. The bracelet is signed "SL". Bracelet Details : This is a beautiful and antique Native American Bracelet! As i said earlier the stone work in some of the finest that i have seen, very rare stone! The same goes for the immaculate silver work! Again, Native American jewelry is disappearing often and fast! Please don't hesitate to bid on this beautiful one of a kind bracelet. I promise you will never see one quite like it again. Custom made and the only one of it's kind, you cannot go wrong with this investment! Estimated Southwest Shop Value : $1500+ 41 Grams This is a beautiful find! Bracelets like this just do not exist anymore! Most of the early Native American jewelry over the years have been melted, broken, destroyed or just simply lost with time, so it is getting increasingly harder to find vintage and antique quality Native American jewelry. This is truly the piece that will complete any jewelry collectors collection or wardrobe! Not to mention only gain in monetary value over the years! Please Be aware of all the details I have listed about this piece of jewelry. I will not accept returns if you didn't read the add clearly enough, please ask questions! Please be committed to your purchase! Thank you. All of our jewelry is guaranteed to be sterling silver through an X-Ray Florescent-Spectrometer test that reads the alloys of the metal without damaging the piece like nasty acid and scratch tests. This tells us the purity of many precious metals and the alloy of of an unknown metal or element. Rest assured that we are 100% that you are receiving the real deal! Still has that wonderful patina to it! A wonderful find for someone to wear and enjoy Get this at a BARGAIN with NO RESERVE and Starting bid at .99 cents! Favorite us! We will be trying to list 10-20 new items daily! Its always a great time for fantastic deals! This Item Is pre-owned, but shows no damage unless otherwise stated above. Guaranteed To Be The Purity Of what it is listed above Or I Will Refund Your Money Back. Please Read The Measurements And Underst... read more

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