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Turquoise/Native American jewelry

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Buffalo, NY
Silver belt buckle with fine stamp work and repoussé.

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15,077
Location
Buffalo, NY
A rare simple and elegant silver bead necklace with Naja marked US Navajo 70, late 1930s -1940. I posted a bracelet with this designation some time back.

"The U.S. Navajo designation was used for just 4 years between 1938 and 1942, under a U.S. Government program created to assure the quality of native arts and crafts sold in trading posts on the Navajo, Zuni, Hopi and Rio Grande Pueblo reservations. Only originally approved and monitored posts could use the "U.S. Navajo" designation and the mark was an assurance of superior quality. The brilliant Navajo silversmith and jewelry instructor Ambrose Roanhorse personally made all the "U.S. Navajo" and "U.S. Zuni" jewelry stamps himself and also personally stamped many of the approved pieces. The "U.S. Navajo 70" stamp designated the Navajo Arts and Crafts Guild in Fort Wingate, New Mexico."

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