Lombano ring?

Hey!
I have this old ring that might be a native american ring or lombano, it has some stamps including "925", a simple fish and something else that I can't exactly see what it is.
Is there someone here who might know something more about this ring, how much it could be worth and who made it?
Images attached.

 

It looks Zuni.....but we'll need to see the mark to help identify it.
We don't really do ' value ' here , but can point you in the right direction to compare your item to other ones for a ballpark price.

 

The design itself, and the fact that it is stamped 925, indicate that it is Mexican.

What do you mean by "lombano"?

And a reference to a "fish"? Is the ring in the photo the item you are inquiring about? I sure don't see any fish....

 

Hi Simsim, welcome.
Could you post full size pictures, here it tells you how to:
https://www.antiquers.com/threads/posting-a-thread-and-uploading-pictures.15990/
Could you also include a picture of the marks?
By the way, the fish mark could be an arrowhead. Several Navajo artists use an arrowhead mark.

 

Looks Zuni or Hopi to me, too. But there are non NA makers doing this sort of thing - so in that case, more properly called South Western. If it says 925 I suspect it's a) more modern and b) possibly not NA. Most of the older NA stuff I have is marked Sterling, if anything at all.

 

If NA, it is more likely to be Zuni or Navajo. The style used to be Zuni, but many of these brightly coloured pieces are Navajo or non-Native.

 

My NA stuff was pretty well all bought up on the reservations: certainly, all the Navajo stuff came from the Nation. Can't say I remember seeing anything much like that up there. But mine is all older. I did buy a fair bit of Zuni and Hopi stuff back in the day, and have bright geometric pieces which are of the same ilk. But people like QVC and Pollack have indeed "copied".

 

Taupou, do you think it could be a QVC or similar thing? I've seen 925 on some of those sold here.

 

Lombano......=.....Loloma ??
maybe......otherwise I don't know what that even means..

 

Hi and WELCOME, Simsim!!! Hoping you don't mind, (and apologizing if you do!!), I took the liberty of cropping your 2 images......basically that's all they needed.....you want to get in close when you can!!!! Here they are edited:

 

now it does not look SW Native made...!
good editing Aquitaine !!!!

 

Aside from the 925, I do see some illegible writing on the inside rim.......I too thought of Loloma, but I don't really see that he used silver between his stones.......

 

I worked with Charles Loloma for a gallery, and this is definitely not Loloma, nowhere near it, and far too recent.

 

I reckon that's made for one of the mass market outlets. Very nice cropping!

 

Since Simsim wrote Native American or Lombano, I don't think she thought of Lombano as Native American. Charles Loloma was Hopi, so Native American.

 

All I can say is that the chances that this is Native American are slim, to none. No Native American jeweler would stamp a 925 on his or her work, and not include a personal hallmark or name. They might as well stamp it Mexico, or the Philippines, or Taiwan. "925" by itself, is synonymous with "import" when it comes to this style of jewelry.

That, plus, unless one knows for sure the tribal affiliation and the maker's name, it cannot legally be sold as "Native American," anyway, according to the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990, which is U.S. federal law.

 

Vintage last week Chinese import is my guess. The inlay style is modern Southwestern, but the silver work definitely isn't.

 

Thailand has been making a lot of 'Native American Jewelry' the last few years, mostly with a rougher look to it. The silver in Chinese fakes is a bit more blingy.

If we could see that fish/arrowhead mark, we would be able to say more, although the arrowhead marks I know are combined with 'sterling', not '925'.

Bu the way, as a collector of German Fischland jewellery (another collection, but only Walter Kramer period), I always wake up with a jolt when someone says fish mark. But again, this is nowhere near it and too recent.