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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 1948923, member: 2844&quot;]I&#039;m with the others, the first one is Japanese, and beautiful. You didn&#039;t show the back, but I guess it is ca 1900. The mark could be the maker&#039;s mark.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Mexican one is based on a pre-Columbian Mixtec jewel. The stone chip inlay was already used in pre-Columbian times.</p><p>My Mexican silver book (Hougart) has 3 pages of makers who used the &#039;Eagle 3&#039; mark, but I can&#039;t find the maker of yours. A lot of this Mixtec-inspired jewellery was made, by different makers.</p><p>This is the original:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/mixtecs/mixtec-gold-10.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>About ivory, 1947 is the official year set in the CITES agreement. But since different countries and regions have different legislation, it is best to check what the legislation is where you are.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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