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<p>[QUOTE="reader, post: 4613566, member: 255"]I still haven’t really looked at the sig but again, if AJ couldn’t find it I won’t either but I will look-just had hand surgery and still stitched. I absolutely could be wrong but my GUESS off a lifetime of wearing and handling NA jewelry is that it’s Navajo using artistry of Zuni (inlay) and Navajo (side stamping on bracelets-like the snake eye ones I pictured on the other thread).</p><p><br /></p><p>Age-I guess later than 70s as Lonn Parker early unsigned ones were 70s but they were single color until later. That multicolor flush stone stuff was later-80s. Stamping absolutely existed way earlier but all artists wete signing everything in the 80s but the rough sandcast seems early. I gotta stick with early 80s. If late 70s whatever LOL.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don’t own a ton of 80s forward NA jewelry as I’m basically interested in the older stuff but I iwn some and they’re all stamped with letters, names or symbols and sterling NO 925 on any. All mine stamped that way are 80s as they were bought by me from the artists in NM.</p><p><br /></p><p>So that’s why I think early 80s and Navajo but i certainly could be wrong.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="reader, post: 4613566, member: 255"]I still haven’t really looked at the sig but again, if AJ couldn’t find it I won’t either but I will look-just had hand surgery and still stitched. I absolutely could be wrong but my GUESS off a lifetime of wearing and handling NA jewelry is that it’s Navajo using artistry of Zuni (inlay) and Navajo (side stamping on bracelets-like the snake eye ones I pictured on the other thread). Age-I guess later than 70s as Lonn Parker early unsigned ones were 70s but they were single color until later. That multicolor flush stone stuff was later-80s. Stamping absolutely existed way earlier but all artists wete signing everything in the 80s but the rough sandcast seems early. I gotta stick with early 80s. If late 70s whatever LOL. I don’t own a ton of 80s forward NA jewelry as I’m basically interested in the older stuff but I iwn some and they’re all stamped with letters, names or symbols and sterling NO 925 on any. All mine stamped that way are 80s as they were bought by me from the artists in NM. So that’s why I think early 80s and Navajo but i certainly could be wrong.[/QUOTE]
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