REAL Native American Jewelry~

#796
sdkitty said:
I couldn't get a modeling shot but here is my stack - Jennifer Curtis turquoise and two-tone with a spiny oyster row bracelet from Oggs HoganView attachment 4432941
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Gaah, you know I love your Curtis pieces. :tup: I have a very similar JC two-tone; love it. Don't think I'd seen the spiny oyster row bracelet previously--I'm jealous. I really need some spiny oyster in my life. I fell hard in love with a giant, elongated heart-shape spiny oyster ring by Harry H. Begay, never had the chance to buy one.
 
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#797
jellyv said:
Gaah, you know I love your Curtis pieces. :tup: I have a very similar JC two-tone; love it. Don't think I'd seen the spiny oyster row bracelet previously--I'm jealous. I really need some spiny oyster in my life. I fell hard in love with a giant, elongated heart-shape spiny oyster ring by Harry H. Begay, never had the chance to buy one.
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I think the spiny oyster is kind of a replacement for coral which is pretty much gone now
 
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#798
OrbitOrange said:
Your decor is so southwestern that I was wondering if you lived there. I love it! For the southwest, southwest Florida, or anywhere.
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I have family who lived in Santa Fe for about 8 years. My grandmother on my mother's side lived in Phoenix for as long as I can remember and she loved all things native american. I still have a ring that she bought for me when I was about 10, and I have it tucked away and should wear it. It is a larger stone, and I am not even sure what it is, but I was thinking maybe carnelian. I gravitate to those colors. When we used to visit my grandmother when I was young, I just knew my heart belonged in the west. I still have time left to actually move there......if I can convince my husband who loves all things water.
 
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#799
Compass Rose said:
Well....as long as we are modeling our wrists today, here is a heavy gauge copper and silver bracelet that I was so excited to purchase at the Indian Market in Santa Fe in about 2013. The artist is Ronnie Hurley and he started to work with copper just about the time I purchased this bracelet. When I bought it, the copper was as shiney as a brand new penny and when I saw him the next year, he was glad that I just let it do its own thing and let it patina at will. If you see any cat hairs in these close ups, just remember that they are love sprinkles.View attachment 4432658View attachment 4432659View attachment 4432660
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This is really interesting! I did a double take, thinking the white part was molten glass or quartz stone. And it’s the tooled silver underneath. Very nice! Thank you for showing this beauty! I like the copper contrasted against the silver.
 
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sdkitty said:
I couldn't get a modeling shot but here is my stack - Jennifer Curtis turquoise and two-tone with a spiny oyster row bracelet from Oggs HoganView attachment 4432941
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Nice combination! Spiny oyster? I thought it was coral..duh. I’m starting to take a second look at the silver also. Is the middle silver bracelet also a Native American piece? If they’re not signed, how could one tell? Do they have certain styles..:confused1:
 
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Compass Rose said:
I have family who lived in Santa Fe for about 8 years. My grandmother on my mother's side lived in Phoenix for as long as I can remember and she loved all things native american. I still have a ring that she bought for me when I was about 10, and I have it tucked away and should wear it. It is a larger stone, and I am not even sure what it is, but I was thinking maybe carnelian. I gravitate to those colors. When we used to visit my grandmother when I was young, I just knew my heart belonged in the west. I still have time left to actually move there......if I can convince my husband who loves all things water.
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They have running water in the Southwest.:P But you’d get into a lot of trouble for sure. I’m new at this and spend so much time on the internet sites..if there were physical stores :shocked: oh boy.
 
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Little story here.
As a teen and 20- something living in Denver in the 70’s, of course I had my turquoise & coral pieces.
Forward to my mid-30’s. Full time working mom of toddler boy & infant girl whose husband worked opposite shift so the children only spent 3 hours daily in daycare.
I’m downstairs nursing baby girl, toddler son had toddled upstairs. I hear a prolonged banging sound, upstairs baby girl & I go to see what my son was doing.... he’d found a hammer and pounded my jewelry into ruin.
By this point I wasn’t wearing it much. I kept it in a jewelry box and he decided I didn’t like it, I guess.
Sigh.
 
#808
gacats said:
Little story here.
As a teen and 20- something living in Denver in the 70’s, of course I had my turquoise & coral pieces.
Forward to my mid-30’s. Full time working mom of toddler boy & infant girl whose husband worked opposite shift so the children only spent 3 hours daily in daycare.
I’m downstairs nursing baby girl, toddler son had toddled upstairs. I hear a prolonged banging sound, upstairs baby girl & I go to see what my son was doing.... he’d found a hammer and pounded my jewelry into ruin.
By this point I wasn’t wearing it much. I kept it in a jewelry box and he decided I didn’t like it, I guess.
Sigh.
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Oh NOOOO! This is heartbreaking.
 
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essiedub said:
This is really interesting! I did a double take, thinking the white part was molten glass or quartz stone. And it’s the tooled silver underneath. Very nice! Thank you for showing this beauty! I like the copper contrasted against the silver.
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Thank you, Essie....I am not even sure how much copper this artist used, but in commenting to him about the beauty of the copper at the time I bought it, he said that silver was really getting so expensive that he was trying this technique out. You actually don't see much of this around, but if you look him up (Ronnie Hurley), he has some overlay pieces in silver that are so beautiful. He reminded me of the work that Ben Nighthorse does.
 
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