Judy ,if the Turquoise one (and it does look VERY good) has a pictograph of a Peyote bird, it could be by Preston Monongye ! Please read the message I sent you with a link! It could be worth anywhere from $500 way up into the thousands!! Can you verify if the image I sent you is a match?? I have no vested interest here(so those of you bidding know - I do not have credits enough to buy in any event!! But I really don'y want to see Judy getting shortchanged!! ) I cannot verify anything since I cannot see them well enough or in real life , but just looking at the Turquoise one it appears to be an exceptional piece! And I know the other one if it is By Eunice J. TSO is very valuable.
F&W from Oklahoma .... I have a very close friend who is Choctaw and a native silversmith and until I met him I only ever wore gold 18kt because I break out from 14k and under and now I only wear silver , his silver I should say , because he uses thick solid sterling only .... LOVE these two bracelets !! Wish I had a lot of credits to at least try to bid on them but for now ill just hsve to admire them from afar .... Good luck !! :)
There is also JTSO-Jewelry Till Sold out an auction for jewelry. The bracelets are very nice. I never could afford gold jewelry, so early on I decided I'd wear silver especially turquoise. Bidding.
Which is the signed one? J. TSO is Eunice J.Tso Navajo jeweler Most likely at least the one is sterling silver. you should weigh it and give the silver weight. Eunice J. TSO pieces can command pretty hefty prices . The other one ( I presume the Abalone) is a nice big piece of Abalone, and abalone has recently become protected and are becoming scare (in Calif it is now an endangered species, as this shellfish has been attack by a disease that is causing huge dieoffs, and I believe only is still legal to catch in the Phillipines which means Abalone has become very scarce (it was overfishing for years in Calif. wiping out literally millions of them.As scarcity becomes known, pieces like this will be very hard to find.I have a Zuni Native American ring listed now at 10000 credits , and I just sold a old Abalone and Mother of Pearl Compact, sold for 53000. Your two pieces combined are worth easily that and more if you can locate a signature on the Abalone piece/ or a mark - sometimes Native Americans use "Pictographs" like a little stamp of a bird or something. Look it over carefully . But the color difference in metals says to me the abalone piece could be nickel silver (possibly even Mexican Alpaca. ) There is also a Thomas Tso (TT) a Juice TSO and Justine TSO but I'm pretty sure this is by Eunice J.TSO , because that's her signature.Good Luck!!!
Judy inside the middle of the turquoise one it looks like a little square box or rectangular, is something written there? And where are the two Peyote birds exactly? I'm not seeing them. It would be worth your while to borrow someones camera for a minute to get a few more clear shots. Most people don't bid until the end anyways. If you can add any pics of the signature on the one and anything you can see. maybe 925 or sterling printed anywhere? Any marks at all that you see will really help . TY
there is nothing on the back except the word silver. i used magnifing glass and checked .the birds are on the ends of bracelet on the outside. but dont think its a Preston.
I'm here from Texas. Yes I'm from the south but most all my auctions go to northern states. We are from all over! Even Canada,Ireland,China and Hawai. I know because I have won idems from Listians from these countries. Listia is world wide. I've even seen idems from Italy. Listia is Great! I love this site!
thank you for info, i was curious since almost all my auctions went to the carolina's, miss.,Kentucky, Florida and mo.. did not know about overseas. have a good day.
North Carolina checking in via Texas,New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, California, South Carolina, Delaware, Ohio, Indiana, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Virginia. I have lived in a lot of places and have finally settled down. thank you for sharing these great bracelets. I adore jewelry and especially older jewelry. please fan me back.
Hey neighbor~ Much love for these bracelets from Wisconsin! I hate to ask, but I am very interested in these pieces.... Is there any chance you could get a pic with a better focus on them? Cheers to the Home Grown Girls!