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All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Mexican : Pre 1950 item #168385 (stock #T 375)
Excellent pricing early mark Gerardo Lopez abalone inlay sterling buckle piece which can be worn with today's leather belts. Marked: "Sterling 925" "Lopez Taxco" "Hecho en Mexico".
2" X 1 1/4"
Weight .6oz on postal scale.
Inlay intact and buckle is still in its vintage pre owned unpolished condition. It could easily be worn as a pendant without altering it...
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Mexican : Pre 1950 item #313576 (stock #T 874)
Vintage reticulated ethnographic pin brooch that converts to a pendant with fold down bail stamped: "925 18K", open cut work Pre Columbian motif . 18K Gold face on round Malachite open work fancy bezel set stone.
Just under 1 1/4",
malachite is 12mm and the
Gold face piece is 10mm.
In wonderful un polished pre owned condition with all good working parts...
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Mexican : Pre 1950 item #751770 (stock #T 1611)
Vintage Circa 1945 early pre assay Mexican Pre Columbian design puffy cheek bird man mask Maya or Aztec ethnographic motif repousse pin with a bird or serpent on its headdress.
Mark: Made in Mexico Sterling - with old style safety clasp hinge.
A most talented silversmith took a sheet of sterling and hammered it onto a pitch bowl to create such repousse detail. Because it is holloware one looks for the air escape openings which in this case are found at one ear...
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Mexican : Pre 1950 item #322413 (stock #T 955)
Vintage bird parrot avian Mexican sterling silver collectors, look at this engraved feather parrot perched in circle pin brooch marked: Hecho en Mexico 0925 around "JV" a listed silversmith. 'He' is has a 8X13mm green jade/onyx stone belly w an engraved feather riveted through that! Handsome and in perfect shape of 1 X 1 3/8" in size as seen in one book or another.

$9 USPS Priority/Ins/Track or Free with USA Check or USPS MO...

All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Mexican : Pre 1950 item #338094 (stock #T 1064)
Unknown initials mark. Floral bow reminds one of Matilde Poulat 'unmatched' old blue, green turquoise, stamped 22 assay shared by Fred Davis, Bernice Goodspeed, Antonio Pineda et. al., it is no doubt in good Taxco Silversmiths' company!
9 florals have multi blue & green color 4 mm turquoise centers.
3 1/8" X 1 7/8" and in untouched unpolished condition, yet will lightly hand cloth polish FREE when requested...
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Mexican : Pre 1950 item #162485 (stock #T 324)
A vintage Taxco pin pendant with maker's mark of "FLC" inside a circle: "Taxco Mexico Sterling 925" and assay # 3. Could this be by a Castillo family member? Multi color gem fish, micro inlay around a very modernist fish pendant pin combination.
2" X 1.5" Very wearable pre owned vintage condition and needs a good polishing. Please view closeups for more info...
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Mexican : Pre 1950 item #1350206 (stock #T 1833)
Pre assay Mexico era. Both Maricela and Los Ballesteros and maybe Rafael Melendez along with other Taxco silversmiths have made this style of bench cut - not cast -2 tier cuff bracelet with applied C shape rope elements and "dot" application...
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Mexican : Pre 1950 item #612855 (stock #T 1565)
A senor doll motif. Vintage circa 1945 sterling silver pin brooch as a pre assay era figural man with sombrero carrying a crate of 'tomatoes' stamped: SILV MEX - testing at least 90%, tho often these are higher. No doubt by a talented Taxco Mexico Mexican silversmith working in repousse holloware.
The native peoples have been known to make dolls as teaching tools for their children to play...
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Native American : Pre 1950 item #457108 (stock #T 1393)
Vintage Signed Sterling Silver 5 dome pin brooch with "C" catch marked: MAISEL'S STERLING for the Albuquerque New Mexico maker of Native American jewelry of years past. It is 2 3/8" X 1/2" @ widest, this being the smallest dome at 10mm while the mid one is 13mm. Slightest hint of a very shallow dimple that even the camera won't pick up and the "C" catch is a bit askew yet very secure.
Similar seen recently on Jane Russell in an old black and white western movie...
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Scandinavian : Pre 1950 item #473249 (stock #T 1440)
Sterling silver Danish conversation piece of a figural man pin brooch stamped with maker's mark of: A. Dragsted under a crown, then 'Denmark Sterling' for a family of silversmiths to Denmark's Royal Courts. Brushed surface measuring 1 7/8" north to south and in excellent vintage condition with safety catch.

$10 USPS Priority/Ins/Track or Free w/ USA Ck or USPS MO...

All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Designer Signed : Pre 1950 item #340037 (stock #T 1083)
Vintage, Very Danish Scandinavian looking silver bracelet stamped: DANECRAFT REG'D STERLING with mystery mark of Lion's Head facing a "C" or is there a Canadian connection? Maybe not a mystery; a Canadian mark? This is not the typical c in a circle copyright mark.
While fold over secure clasp is engaged it measures inside 6 3/4" X just under 1 1/4" wide and weighs 21 Grams...
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Designer Signed : Pre 1950 item #331868 (stock #1020)
Vintage sterling silver not often found fabulous wow factor fur clip pin signed NAPIER STERLING with a double M stylized "M" monogram. Ah, would that this belong to Marilyn Monroe!
3 X 1 3/4", in very fine satin like condition. 25 Grams or .8 Oz. Just fabulous, who cares if your initials are not MM!

$10 USPS Priority/Ins/Track or Free with your USA Ck or USPS MO.
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All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Designer Signed : Pre 1950 item #405348 (stock #T 1315)
Vintage silver pin and earring set signed and stamped with the maker's mark as: A & Z STERLING which was founded by Carl Anshen & Saul Zeitlin in 1905 in nearby Providence RI.
These well made beautiful "pinched" leaf motif screwback rhodium plated pieces date to mid 20th Century and are in very nice, probably never worn and in No issues condition.
.Brooch is 1 1/4 X 2 1/2" and the ears are 1 X 5/8".

$9 USPS Priority/Ins/Track or Free with your USA Ck or USPS MO.
Please collec...

All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Modernism : Pre 1940 item #497992 (stock #T 1481)
Unmarked unsigned tested sterling silver pendant necklace with old spring ring closure. Unsigned maybe Arts Crafts or Art Deco era, yet mostly hand made in the Modernism and Arts Crafts tradition. The hand wrought "cage like" pendant holds a 9mm undrilled jade jadeite or nephrite orb then ends with a chain tassel for a total of 1.5".
The 17" chain ends in a pesky old style spring ring clasp that is marked sterling. Needs a good polishing.

$9 USPS Priority/Ins/TRack or Free with ...

All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Modernism : Pre 1940 item #394268 (stock #T 1291)
Unsigned unmarked yet tested bright red, may be higher than sterling silver and could be an Arts Crafts, Art Deco or Modernist Studio Ring with 3/4" bezel set Carnelian looking cab at size 6 3/4 yet your jeweler could resize.
Top is 1 1/8 X 7/8 and is unpolished. There is some silver that was never 'cleaned up'.
In good sound preowned vintage wearable condition.

$9 USPS Priority/Ins/Track or Free with your USA Ck or USPS MO.
Please collect with confidence after reviewing th...

All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Arts and Crafts : Pre 1940 item #281769 (stock #T 734)
Vintage late Arts Crafts era, circa 1935 hand made sterling silver bracelet from a New Hampshire household reminding one of Foss or even Peruzzi?
Six foliate disc links with applied petals, engraved or chased leaves, etc. There are buds and calla lilly like flowers applied
See image 3 and 4 to see the metal work and the old Art Deco era spring ring clasp marked 'Sterling'.
Measure 7" interior X 3/4" wide. Great 3 D and in very nice, rich silver vintage pre owned condition. Weighs...
All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Deco : Pre 1940 item #734554 (stock #T 1600 a, b,)
Two wrist ornaments to wear today. Select either or take them both for real savings:
( A) Stamped: GERMANY STERLING with 13 faceted 12mm x 8mm bezel set Carnelians in a slightly serrated bezel. Organic shading, as they are not all identical color.
End to end 7 3/4X 7/8; or
(B) Rhodium plated with 8 half round Carnelian looking claw set stones. Each half moon shape is 30 X 15mm and although quite even coloration, no bubbles noted.
End to end 7 3/4 X 1 1/4". No marks seen.
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All Items : Estate Jewelry : Silver : Deco : Pre 1940 item #399787 (stock #T 1304)
Each. Bracelet collectors, look at these vintage mid century retro silver bracelet trio - one signed - at 59 each!
(A) Art Deco sterling with 11 sharply faceted bezel set 10 mm citrine color poured stones that shine like Swarovski crystal, newer fold over clasp 8 X 1/2"; or
(B) Retro signed Providence Stock Co 12K on Sterling with three red stones 7 X 1/2"; or
(C) Bi color Goldfilled retro leaf with brilliant sharply cut bezel set 6 mm amethyst color crystal 7 1/4 X 1/2".
$9 e...