Gold, Turquoise, and Los Castillo

jason4kstate

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I found about 95% of these at one sale on Saturday. I paid around $80 in total for the pile. It was extremely rainy so I only made it to 3 sales. This weekend looks a lot nicer. Unfortunately most of the turquoise is unsigned. My usual competitor picked up a couple nice signed pieces but was distracted by looking through his loop so I picked up the rest. The necklace next to the liquid silver necklace is a piece of Los Castillo which should fetch around $200-300 (hopefully).

3.8 grams of 14K

~a little less than 1000 grams of sterling
 

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pat-tekker-cat

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Pretty! That one big oval blue pendant almost looks more like larimar stone than turquoise.
Hard to tell for sure from photo..... Nice haul there!
 

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jason4kstate

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Its actually lapis. Its really light colored so it looks like larimar. That piece was kind of odd because it was done by a Sioux artist. At first I thought it was Taxco instead of Native American.
 

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I'm a sucker for those fat silver cuffs. The 'right' artisan can be worth a small fortune.

Fantastic picks. Way jelly.
 

trdhrdr007

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I've made good money off liquid silver necklaces. The more strands the better. Even if you can't identify the maker yours should sell for more as a BIN than the $80 you paid for the lot.
 

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Big pile for $80. Well done
 

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jason4kstate

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I've made good money off liquid silver necklaces. The more strands the better. Even if you can't identify the maker yours should sell for more as a BIN than the $80 you paid for the lot.


It's a 30 strand so I should get around $100 for it. It's definitely one of the biggest ones I have found so far. I find a few 15 strands a year. Last year I found the complete set (necklace, earrings, and a bracelet).
 

trdhrdr007

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I scored several liquid silver multi strand necklaces the last couple months of 2015 for less than spot prices. Strand counts ranged from 3 to 50. Sold most of them the first couple months of 2016 for great prices. The last one sold early this year.
 

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They are fantastic pendant holders for large Native American pendants. I think a lot of my fellow garage sale hunters do not know what they are. I usually find them later in the day.
 

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