This pendant has the feel and look of a reliquary, but is in fact two finely painted images. One is an angle or saint holding a cornucopia and the other is the Virgin Mary in full regalia. The glass covering each side is a thick piece of glass to fit.
The buckle weighs 118 grams. This fancy buckle is filled with both stamp work and repousse. The design is bilaterally symmetrical with two sides jagged cut and the other two sides arc cut. The tongue on the buckle is missing and one needs to be added when one works to fit this onto a belt.
This charming and colorful Pueblo cross necklace has 8 small silver crosses and one large, dragon fly style cross ending with a heart. The whole assembly is strung onto a hemp cord string. The crosses are spaced on either side with large, pony beads then followed by small, Russian, faceted cobalt glass beads. The very […]
This necklace shows nice wear to the turquoise beads – shiny and smoothed over. The graduated turquoise disks are largest at the base of the necklace and they separate 3, silver barrels with minimal stamp work. There is a clasp at both ends. Everything is strung onto a thin, sturdy wire.
This beautiful squash blossom necklace has 10 blossoms each with turquoise stone of sky blue and deep black veins. The naja has 7 turquoise stones going around it and the 8th stone hangs in the center. The silver bench beads are smaller and are doubled up to two rows before migrating to one row towards […]
The is a beautiful pair of earrings, so charming with the different geometric parts including well executed buffalo heads. The earrings are made for pierced ears and begin at the top with a round, silver disc stamped into 8 sections. This disc is then attached to a buffalo head cut out showing the horns, the […]
This early ring has two, small rectangular stones set high above the base. The base is itself rectangular shaped with cut marks on both sides. There appears to be a very short length of twisted wire between the two stones. There is no evidence of a seam within the silver band. Ring size is 10 […]
A large, green turquoise stone centers this early and beautifully sculpted ring. The wear is quite apparent yet the stone is unbroken. The ring fits a size 7 1/2. There is an inside stamp saying STERLING
This is a special and unique pair of Comanche earrings. The water, or peyote bird, played a special role in the Indian Church movement. The Water Bird is a symbol of the renewal of life, rainy seasons, rivers, distant travel, distant vision & wisdom. Here we see it with a Christian cross in the center, […]
This is a beautiful pair of Comanche earrings. They are silver, with a star cut out at the top. From this hangs 5 tinklers and 5 small cones, also believed to be of silver. A silver loop at the top allows for connecting to the ear.