Vintage Sterling Silver
Turquoise Watch Tips
HK Item #W353

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Vintage sterling silver and turquoise watch tips with expansion band and timepiece

size	7" to 8" with the current band tips 1 5/8" x 1"
material	sterling silver tips, read about silver; turquoise, read about stones
condition	vintage, pre-owned, stones firmly set with no cracks or chips; dark patina;
hallmarks	none
artists	unknown

Vintage sterling silver and turquoise watch tips with expansion band and timepiece

Tips are 1 5/8" x 1". Stones firmly set in smooth bezels.

Vintage sterling silver and turquoise watch tips with expansion band and timepiece

We leave the natural patina on our pawn jewelry because many of our customers like the old "vintage" appearance. If you'd like to clean up your silver jewelry, new or old, check out our handy silver cleaning and polishing cloth.

Questions or more details.

Vintage Sterling Silver
Turquoise Watch Tips
HK Item #W353

$200 (ONLY ONE AVAILABLE)

Paula says - "The term Watch Tips refers to the two decorative panels that connect the timepiece to the expansion band.

"The expansion band pictured here was on the watch tips when they came into our store. The new timepiece is included at no extra cost. It will be running when we ship it.

"In my opinion, these watch tips show design characteristics and workmanship of being Navajo made. But because there is no hallmark that we can attribute to a specific artist we can't legally sell it as Native American made - read more."

Vintage Watch Tips

When we sell vintage watch tips, we sell them in the condition they were when we received them. Some of our customers purchase these watch tips for their collections, others to wear, so we leave everything AS-IS and let you decide.

Vintage sterling silver and turquoise watch tips with expansion band and timepiece

This expansion band will fit approximately a 7" to 8"

wrist.

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of Native American Indian Jewelry and Artifacts

We are in the vintage Native American jewelry rescue business and are passionate about finding new homes for used and vintage jewelry and artifacts. That's why we purchase Native American pieces from estates, inheritances, collection downsizing and New Old Stock (NOS) inventory from closed stores.

Often people contact us after taking a box of Native American jewelry to their local pawn shop and find that a pawn shop is mainly interested in melt value of the metals and not in preserving the beautiful historic pieces. To hear that people have considered selling these treasures for melt value makes us truly sad.

Melt value is usually far below what we would offer for the jewelry. Yet we can't pay retail price for items because of the time and cost involved in finding new homes for them. We have to research, often repair and restore the jewelry, photograph and list each item on our website, and sometimes hold pieces in inventory for years until the right buyer comes along.

We hope you'll find something special in our vintage shop that will complete yet another circle of our jewelry re-homing mission.

ABOUT TURQUOISE

Turquoise is associated with the sky, and bringing sky energy to earth. It is known as a master healer stone as it is believed to help speed the healing process. It is also thought that turquoise can help promote honest and clear communication from the heart.
Turquoise comes in all shades of blue, to blue-green and it is the natural variations in turquoise that make it appealing. The color of turquoise in American Indian jewelry ranges from brownish green to bright blue. Found in veins sandwiched in between layers of mother rock, turquoise can show some of the influence of the mother rock in its matrix or veining. The matrix colors range from blue to golden brown to black and sometimes with golden flecks. Many people prefer turquoise with matrix over clear stones. Read more about stones.

NOTE: Items in our Vintage Shop are either USED or NEW. They might come from inheritances, estate sales, private collections, and store liquidations. Many items are brand new (, New Old Stock) and in perfect condition while others may show tarnish, scratches and other signs of use. Major issues will be described in detail and shown in photos. Vintage Shop items are sold as described and are not returnable.

Why isn't this item called Native American?

The US Department of the Interior Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 and its recent Amendments require that items described as Native American or Indian be made by an enrolled member of a federally recognized tribe. Furthermore, government regulations suggest that all attributions include the Native American Indian's name, tribe and federal tribal enrollment number. Because it is impossible to identify the artist for many vintage items, even if they are authentic Indian made items, we cannot and will not use the words Native American or Indian in association with such pieces.

Read about authenticity of Native American Indian jewelry.

Vintage Sterling Silver Turquoise Watch Tips HK Item #W353

Our Rescue Missionof Native American Indian Jewelry and Artifacts

ABOUT TURQUOISE

Why isn't this item called Native American?

Vintage Sterling Silver
Turquoise Watch Tips
HK Item #W353

Our Rescue Mission
of Native American Indian Jewelry and Artifacts