OLD Signed RARE Bisbee Turquoise Silver Squash Necklace Navajo Indian 1-of-a-Kind Unique Custom Handmade = NR Start Price USD 1,855.00 Current Price USD 1,855.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price USD 2,241.00 Reserve Price - Start Time Friday, June 27, 2008 End Time Monday, July 07, 2008 Location Snowpony Ridge Trading Post See more about 'OLD Signed RARE Bisbee Turquoise Silver Squash Necklace' Description A MULTI AWARD WINNING POWER SELLER, * 28,000+ Positive Feedbacks * YOU CAN BID WITH ABSOLUTE CONFIDENCE.We are ebays Premiere Sellers of Vintage, Dead Pawn and Old Pawn Native American Indian Jewelry for 10+ Years Running, we have Specialized in bringing you the most Unique, Different, Rare and 1-of-a-kind items ever seen on ebay, things you will NOT find on other ebay sites and at prices that are ridiculously low, have fun and find that 1-of-a-Kind item you have been looking for all your life... Please Note :-) .. OUR LOW starting prices or Low Buy-it-Now prices do not reflect the actual value of the item, or any low or poor quality, we always list our items low, and we always list quality items, just trying to give you the best deals possible, by starting our auctions low.NO RESERVE = NO RESERVE = NO RESERVEFREE SHIPPING WITH BUY-IT-NOW, WITHOUT A BUY-IT-NOW WIN, OUR REGULAR SHIPPING COST APPLY AND ARE LISTED BELOW IN THIS PAGE and are some of the lowest shipping costs on ebay, we didn't raise our shipping prices when the post office did, we kept ours the same to help the buyers receive there items at a low cost.ITEM DESCRIPTION Up for Auction from our Private Show Case Collection of Fine Rare Old Pawn Museum Quality Native American Indian Handmade Jewelry,.....    This Absolutely Magnificent Museum Quality Old Pawn Signed Navajo Indian All Custom 1-of-a-Kind Handmade and Hand Tooled Sterling Silver & Genuine Top Grade and Top Quality Very RARE Old Free Form Shaped Lavender Pit Bisbee Turquoise Squash Blossom Necklace..........    The Necklace measures: 24" long, thats just the beaded necklace with the blossoms, not including the Naja Medallion Pendant........    The Gorgeous Naja Horse Shoe Shaped Medallion Pendant measures: 2 7/8+" tall x 2 3/4" at it's widest point.......   There are 12 Handmade Sterling Silver with Lavender Pit Bisbee turquoise Blossoms and you can see all the turquoise stones are Free Form Shaped, so each Blossom was created around the shape of each turquoise stone, you can also see these are custom made with longer than normal 3 prong blossoms and designed to match the Naja, one of them measures: 1 3/4" long x 5/8+" at the widest point........   The Sterling Beads are all custom handmade of heavy gauge silver and measure 8mm in diameter and have smooth edges where the two halves were soldered together and these beads are strung on heavy duty heavy gauge braided sterling silver chain with its original hook and eye clasp.......   You can see the quality of the silversmithing even from the back side, the silversmith used thick heavy gauge sterling silver in its creation, I have shown in the photo........   The necklace weighs in at a Fine Quality 6.3 FULL OUNCES.........     It is signed with a customized personal symbol by the Navajo Silversmith and it is Guaranteed to be and tested as " Sterling Silver ".......     This Fine Old Pawn Squash Blossom Necklace is in AA++ Superb Condition for its age and travels, as shown in the photo's, just needs polishing of the silver if desired, the Turquoise Stones in this necklace are Breathtaking in real life, Lavender Pit Bisbee Turquoise is the most sought after rare turquoise in the world......   This is your chance to own one of the most rarest turquoise necklaces on the market, and our start Price and BIN price is very low compared to what this is worth or what you would find it priced at a Trading post or Native American Gallery or Museum Shop and once this is gone, there is No More....   This is also one of the most Unique Custom Designed Squash Blossom Necklaces we have seen in a while, don't miss-out. The US 25 cent Coin piece (A Quarter) is used for a quick simple comparison of item, so you can get an IDEA of the size, the quarter measures: 24mm in diameter, thats also 15/16", just a hair under an inch, the Actual Sizes are listed in the description.FREE SHIPPING WITH BUY-IT-NOW, WITHOUT A BUY-IT-NOW WIN, OUR REGULAR SHIPPING COST APPLY AND ARE LISTED BELOW IN THIS PAGE. . FREE SHIPPING WITH BUY-IT-NOW, WITHOUT A BUY-IT-NOW WIN, OUR REGULAR SHIPPING COST APPLY AND ARE LISTED BELOW IN THIS PAGE. REASONS TO BUY FROM US:   * QUALITY VINTAGE ITEMS  * OVER 28,000+ POSITIVE FEEDBACKS * DETAILED AND ACCURATE DESCRIPTIONS * SWIFT SHIPPING, COMBINED SHIPPING AS WELL * LOWEST PRICES = NEVER A SURPRISE RESERVE ON OUR ITEMS   * WE ARE HONEST, FRIENDLY AND APPROACHABLE EBAY SELLERS     Be sure to add us to your favorites list!   Check out our other items!     Please Read all our Policies carefully before you place a bid. 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Insurance is Not free, but is available and it is an additional charge you have to add the the shipping costs.   If you get an invoice (end of auction NOTICE) from ebay (Not ours) saying the Insurance is free or not available, that is incorrect, and a problem with ebays data base, we send, via-email, our own invoices to you after the auctions have ended; that invoice is what you use to pay for the item. If you feel you can pay for the item before you get OUR invoice, make sure you add the insurance if you want it, it is Not free but is available. Below are the U.S.A. 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( There is More info on this in our policies page, to read our policy and information page =  CLICK HERE.   then look for the Purchasing Multiple Items policy.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SPECIAL NOTICE TO BUYERS ABOUT CERTIFICATES AND HALLMARKING DATES FOR NATIVE AMERICAN and OTHER ETHNIC JEWELRY: I have had time to search around in the Native American and other Ethnic Jewelry category's and see there are some things that need to be said about Certificates and Hallmark Dating, we have had a couple ebayers even ask why we don't give certificates with our jewelry, here is the truth about certificates of authenticity, first of all this certificate needs to come from and be signed by the person who made the piece, not signed by the second party selling the piece who didn't make the item, thats why we don't give certs, because we don't have any from the smiths.....  Dating pieces by hallmarks is another thing I see others are saying all items made before 1970s will not be signed and will not have a sterling benchmark, WELL, thats not correct, and the proof is in the historic registers of hallmarks that can be found in the hallmark books, there are some Native Americans who signed there pieces as far back as 1920's and some even earlier, and the benchmark Sterling has been stamped on pieces since the late 1800s and earlier, please don't take my word for it, go look it up yourself, I looked it up so I could help the ebay community know the truth, I am putting this info in our auction pages to help the buyers know the real story, and since we sell mostly Old Native American Jewelry this needed to be said, there is no way anyone before us could of got a certificate from these silversmiths back them, they were not even needed or knew about back then, and we don't make or give certificates unless they came directly from the silversmith, a true Certificate of Authenticity comes from the silversmith and signed by the silversmith, not a second party.     ADDITIONAL VERY IMPORTANT INFO ON CERTIFICATES OF AUTHENTICITY FOR NATIVE AMERICAN and OTHER ETHNIC JEWERLY.   EBAY has updated its policy's incorporating the Indian Arts and Crafts Act to make sure the pieces being sold are true Native American items, ebay says, "  If you are listing a piece of art or craftwork that you are describing as "Native American", "American Indian", "Indian" or "Alaska Native," or the product of a particular Indian Tribe or Alaska Native Village,  please note that under the Indian Arts and Crafts Act, such items must be made by an enrolled member of a federally, or officially State-recognized American Indian or Alaska Native Village or by an individual certified as an Indian artisan by the governing body of one of these groups.  By using these descriptions in your listings, you are certifying that you have exercised due diligence in determining that the items are accurately described under the Indian Arts and Crafts Act. " We at painted-sky do our very best and exercise due diligence when we go on our buying trips to always ask many questions about the pieces we buy, and try to find out all we can about the pieces, not only to make sure they are genuine Native Made, but the more info we get, we can pass that on to the buyers and it may even help sell the piece at a better fare price, and it helps educate the ebay community....  Even when we are buying directly from the silversmith who made the piece, they don't give certificates of authenticity, most of the time when you see a C.O.A. its on a piece of jewelry in a high end gallery or museum collectible, thats why getting these C.O.A.'s on ebay are mostly not true certificates, and as you can see we specialize in the old pawn vintage Native American Jewelry, and they didn't give any Certificates back then, and thats another reason why we don't have them and we will not give out some bogus piece of paper saying we purchased it from so and so and we authenticate this piece for them, thats not a Certificate of Authenticity, so make sure you ask about the certificate before assuming its from the actual person who made it.   OLD PAWN NATIVE AMERICAN JEWELRY RARELY EVER HAS A CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY THAT COMES FROM THE PERSON WHO MADE THEM, BECAUSE IT WOULD HAVE TO BE OBTAINED AT THE TIME THE PIECE WAS MADE AND SOLD, NOT LATER ON, AND THAT CERTIFICATE PASSED ON WITH THE PIECE FROM OWNER TO OWNER....  I SEE SELLERS TELLING YOU TO NOT BUY UNLESS YOU HAVE A CERTIFICATE, WELL, YOU HAVE THE ANSWER ABOVE, THIS IS JUST TO HELP YOU OUT SO WHEN YOU COME ACROSS A SELLER WHO IS TRYING TO SCARE YOU OUT OF BUYING FROM OTHERS EBAYERS THAT DON'T GIVE CERTIFICATES, YOU NOW KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT CERTIFICATES AND WHERE THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO COME FROM, I WOULD BE A LITTLE LEARY ABOUT BUYING FROM ANYONE WHO OFFERS CERTIFICATES ON ALL THE THINGS THEY SELL, UNLESS THE CERTIFICATE COMES FROM THE PERSON WHO MADE THE PIECE, I HOPE THIS HELPS YOU IN THE FUTURE NO MATTER WHERE YOU BUY FROM, ALWAYS ASK QUESTIONS.   Thanks - painted sky.     Alabama Residents must pay the additional 4% Tax on all Sales.   If you live outside the U.S.A. , please email me for shipping/handling charges, Please include your country address, and the item number(s).     You may want to BOOKMARK our site, and check back for our new 100s of listings.Visit painted-sky today! 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