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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 321132, member: 2844&quot;]Welcome Brittney, wonderful story and a beautiful Navajo squash blossom necklace.</p><p>It does look 60s or a bit older. Not very much older, since the stones are colour-matched. As Holly said, not antique. But a nice age.</p><p>It could be sterling, but as cluttered implied, it may not be. Coin silver, of .900 fineness, was also used at the time, and sometimes even slightly lower grades. Sterling is .925 silver fineness.</p><p><br /></p><p>Both the naja - the crescent shape, and the squash blossoms - in this case the links with the petal-shapes, are ancient European and Moorish symbols, brought to the Southwest by the Conquistadores.</p><p>Here is some info from &quot;Navajo Silver - a Brief History of Navajo Silversmithing&quot; by Arthur Woodward:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]106884[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]106883[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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