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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 440792, member: 2844&quot;]For less than a dollar each, even in those days, it is very a pretty pair. Both stones look like turquoise to me, and the silver could be coin silver. You could have it tested.</p><p>But I am with the others, they are mass produced, not Fred Harvey, and certainly not Old Pawn.</p><p><br /></p><p>It has been suggested that a better term for the jewellery often called &#039;Fred Harvey&#039; would be Railroad jewelry, made for tourists who visited the area when the railroads made it more accessible.</p><p>Railroad jewelry is profusely decorated with symbols, just like your bracelets.</p><p>The marketing people of Fred Harvey and other companies thought up very nice meanings of the symbols and published charts so you could look up what your bracelet symbolised. Native Americans were not consulted in the making of those charts.</p><p><br /></p><p>Old Pawn is the heavy, quality jewellery SW Native Americans wore themselves. It had enough weight in silver, turquoise and coral to be valuable in the pawn system which was used instead of bank loans. In many places it was impossible for Native Americans to get a bank loan. In some it still is.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the listings also mentioned a peyote bird. The peyote bird is a very graceful religious symbol, and is nowhere to be found on the bracelet.</p><p>The squat bird on the bracelets is the so-called &#039;thunderbird&#039;, a design inspired by petroglyphs and copyrighted by the Fred Harvey co in 1909.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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