Origin of the items we sell....... Most Jewelry is purchased
because the buyer loves the look of an item, and it is a personal preference,
and some are sought after by collectors, but it is the Buyers sole
responsibility to Actually know what they are purchasing, and do their own
research, as we can only give the information that we gathered when we purchased
the items, we cannot verify our information in our descriptions due to many
different circumstances, like ........ the person who had them in an estate was
the only surviving spouse and they don't know the information about the items,
or the information is given by an estate executor who had the items looked at by
a professional, or did their own research, or a large group of jewelry was
purchased from a Dead Pawn or Old Pawn Collection purchase, Auctions or
individually purchased from other collectors, and a lot of items are already
tagged with information by the previous owners or estate personnel, if items
have sales tags or inked writing on them we remove these tags or writing on the
items most of the time before we sell them, or the Gallery or Person it came
from gave us the information we use, or was made by, we also cannot verify the
exact age of items, or any hallmarks, or who had them first, second, third and
so on on these old items unless signed with full name of silversmith.
We do our very best to give you all the information we have gathered,
and have purchased many Native American Indian Identification Books on the
Makers and Hallmarks of their Jewelry, and use the internet to do research on
these items, and use that information we researched, in addition to the
information we have been given. We give all that information we know on an item
in our auction descriptions, and we thank all the other ebayers out there who
also take the time to let use know more about an item we may not know about, so
if you see an item that has information you feel is incorrect, or can give us
more information on it, please email us, or call us about that information you
have, we never intentionally misrepresent anything we sell, and will always do
our best to bring you the information we gathered about that item, we are not
experts by any means.
Just a little about our
experience in this field of Native American Jewelry. We have lived and worked
in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Utah and Colorado, I used to work in the
turquoise and copper mines in Arizona, Tunneling in Texas,
Mining in Colorado and have been around turquoise jewelry over 55
years, so it is not something new to me or my wife, although we don't know it
all, we do have a great understanding about it and collecting it, and have an
extensive Rare Library of the old collectors books and unpublished magazines
and manuscripts on the subject which helps us learn and understand more each
day. Although we live in Alabama right now, we still travel to the southwestern
states scouring North, South, East and West of each state, up and down the old
untraveled back roads no one else does, finding forgotten mine sites and rare
minerals and have a great reputation with some of the oldest Indian trading
posts in the southwest and with the Individual Native Americans them selves, so
you may know you are buying from a very experienced collector of Native American
Indian Jewelry, which you can see by the unusual and unique items we bring to
ebay, and have done so for over 20 years now, longer than most of the sellers
selling Native American New Jewelry now, and we sell Turquoise Jewelry
necklaces, rings bolos belt buckles, bracelets, and, Kachinas, Pottery, Rugs,
Blankets, Art Work and more, if you have any questions, or looking for that
special piece to fulfill your collection, please feel free to email us and let
us know