Jewelry

[SharkE]

I love it girl ! It's so pretty and those blank spaces on the end of the row are accents. Each end.

[Kachina624]

Its looks like it's a beauty.  Do you have a beautiful purple top to wear with it?  Be careful not to bend it in the area where the stones are set.

[SharkE]

Has pretty good size opening over an inch.  5 1/2 inner circumference

My wrist is 6.5 so it's a pretty good fit. Have 7purples and accent space on each end.

MMMMM do I have anything purple ? Just got my rose brown T shirt today from Q  should look good with that. LOL Think I got a purplish shirt that would be keen.

They sent it from Phoenix on Mon I got today ! Now, that's service.

gonna use this vendor in future. This piece was 85 at the Cherokee Trading Post up in OK off I-40 would had been couple of hundred, easy.

[SharkE]

You never know if people know what they're talking about , but, I had this one gal to tell me who owned a native American jewelry store that purple spiny is hard to find because of all the spiny out there only 5% of it is purple.

Mostly that orangey/reddish color

[Kachina624]

I think spiney oyster has become sort of rare.  Perhaps it's regulated in some way.  Several years ago I wanted a spiney oyster necklace and couldn't it anywhere.  @SharkE

[SharkE]

Check out that Etsy place the Wildhorses Trader whatever the link was I uploaded he has some good stuff, reasonable price and fast service.

I'm more of a bracelet type of gal . Not much on necklaces people look at my chest enough naturally don't need to draw any more attention upward. LOL

[Kachina624]

@SharkE.  Here's a bracelet I've gotten within the past 2 years by silversmith Alex Sanchez.  I think @Patbz turned me on to his work.  I love the petroglyphs because I'm only 4-5 miles from Petroglyph National Monument.  I've always been drawn to them.

For several years I bought from an online store that sold his work affordably....2 pairs earrings, 3 rings, pendant and then one day I saw this bracelet for around $200.  They always had sales on holidays and I usually bought something.

When I got it, I couldn't believe the price I paid...its huge  1 3/4" wide and probably 2-3 oz in weight.  With all my strength, I can't bend it.  It's a good thing it fits.  Alex's work has disappeared from my humble website and has moved over to Garland's in Sedona, a premier seller of all things Indian.  Bracelets like mine are selling for about $650 and up.  Don't tell me Indian jewelry isnt a good investment.  I can see where his work would appeal to many people as theres always a fascination with petroglyphs.  And no, theres no Sleeping Beauty; it looks like Kingman but wasn't identified.

[SharkE]

Most I've paid, so, far is 500 for that Carlos Eagle big sleeping bty cuff I bought at Santa Fe. Paid 300 for a 'slinky' cuff think I uploaded pics of it yr ago or so.

I talked to a gal who spent 2,500 on a piece ! Yikes !

[SharkE]

Yep, that's a biggy. Lots of oxidation going on. Do U like that?

[Kachina624]

@SharkE   Without oxidation most Southwestern jewelry would be totally blah.  It makes all the applied motifs pop.  They would otherwise just fade into the background.