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Navajo Carico Lake Turquoise & Squash Blossom 1940

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD
Navajo Carico Lake Turquoise & Squash Blossom 1940
This is an outstanding heavy sterling silver and Carico Lake Turquoise squash blossom from a master Navajo Native American Indian silversmith. The squash blossom dates to circa 1940-50’s and shows a nice even patina. The piece is strung on a sterling silver chain, a true attribute of its early age, and a double strand of large concho beads, ten blossoms, and a large najo squash pendant. The naja squash has a heavy wide square curved sterling silver construction with heavy bezel sterling silver settings showing a leaf or feather pattern along with six polished cabochons of gem high quality turquoise from the Carico Lake Mine. The Carico Lake Turquoise in this piece, being represented by a total of sixteen stones, has a medium green coloring and is truly a high quality representation of turquoise from the Carico Lake Mine. The piece dates to the circa 1940’s to 1950’s and has an outstanding high quality craftsmanship with a total of 116 hand formed sterling silver concho beads with a center median running around the entire body of each bead strung on a braided silver chain with heavy silver large blossom beads and very heavy made naja squash pendant. Overall the piece shows a total weight of _. The necklace measures overall 23 inches long across the strand and hangs 14 inches long when the strands are clasped. The blossoms are approximately 2 inches long by 1.25 inches wide. The squash pendant is 3.75 inches wide by 4 inches long.