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Navajo Old Pawn Silver Squash Blossom 1900-1940

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:1,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD
Navajo Old Pawn Silver Squash Blossom 1900-1940
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This is an excellent early Old Pawn Navajo sterling silver and turquoise squash blossom dating to circa 1900-1940's. The necklace features the highly regarded gem quality Morenci Turquoise, renowned for its deep, rich blue color with pyrite silve like matrix. The turquoise is set in sterling silver and shows wonderful workmanship. The squash blossom is in good condition. The piece shows a doubled concho round silver beaded double strand on an early silver linked chain strand. The piece shows a large squash blossom naja pendant with very unique and rare design having the familiar curved squash pattern but with the addtional vertical stacked three stones in the center. The back of the squash shows the correct patina and wear indicative of its early age with the correct two silver bar constrution and remnants of the Pawn price. It should also be noted that the addition of the double strand of round beads is very unusual as most all squash blossoms do not have a complete double strand, but rather the double strand begins at the blossoms with the top portion being a single strand (yet another rare addition to design and quality). The necklace shows twevle blossom pendants with each shows a polished gem quality turquoise stone surrounded by a worked rope silver edge and then a tooled raised silver frame having the typical three pedal blossom towards the outside. It measures 28" long. This is truly a wonderful and quality example of an early original piece.