Good Afternoon Everyone! I Need Your Help With An Unmarked Mayan/Aztec Brooch Pendant. TY!

Hi Everyone! I hope you are all doing well and I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!

I need your help with this unmarked piece. It is sterling silver and. I don’t know if this is from Mexico or elsewhere, and if you could also help me with the age since I’m not a expert at these things. Thank you so much for your help and enjoy your Sunday.

 

It is the Sun symbol from the Kalasasaya or Gate of the Sun in Tiwanaku (Tiahuanaco), Bolivia.

 

My gut feeling is not Mexico. Wait for others.

 

LOL as sniped by AJ who identified.

 

It dates from 500-950 BC.

 

Well, your gut feeling was right.

 

Fabulous! I’d love to go there too!

 

Thank you AJ! I hope you had a great thanksgiving!<3

 

Thank you Reader!

 

It looks like an older piece, but if it is sterling silver it is likely to be more recent than it looks. Older Bolivian silver is usually 900, if I'm correct.
It is beautiful though, I would have bought it too.

We don't have Thanksgiving in Europe, but I hope you had a good time.

 

It must be very impressive. Lake Titicaca is your next destination.

 

AJ can tell me if it is early or late 20th century? thank you

 

LOL-we pretty much ignored it this year. Our usual invite included 25 indoors so we passed.

 

I thought you guys celebrated it. You are in england right? also it tested sterling so it could be 900

 

AJ will post but IMO attractive tourist piece and later than mid century.

 

Mine was exactly how i wanted to spend it... Quiet and no cooking

 

If it is sterling, it is likely to be after ca 1975. But it looks 1950s-60s to me, which is why I was confused when you said sterling. Is there a mark anywhere?

There is a slight chance it was made in neighbouring Peru, in which case it could be sterling and 1950s.

A wiki page on the Gate of the Sun, for all of you who would like to find out more, or visit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gate_of_the_Sun

 

Thanksgiving is-definitely not celebrated in the UK. Only Canada and the US.

 

No marking at all

 

I'm in the Netherlands.
Thanksgiving is associated with the Pilgrim Fathers, who did live here after they fled from England, but thought Dutch Protestants not strict enough. Which is why they left for the New World, where they could be as strict as they wanted without having to be confronted with people who enjoyed life. Or so they thought....