Appraisal: Navajo Squash Blossom Necklace, ca. 1930
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Appraisal: Navajo Squash Blossom Necklace, ca. 1930
In Georgia State Railroad Museum, Hour 3, Erin Rust appraises a Navajo squash blossom necklace, ca. 1930.
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Appraisal: Navajo Squash Blossom Necklace, ca. 1930
Clip: Season 30 Episode 6 | 1m 56sVideo has Closed Captions
In Georgia State Railroad Museum, Hour 3, Erin Rust appraises a Navajo squash blossom necklace, ca. 1930.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipGUEST: This was my mother's.
My mom and dad had moved from Detroit down to Colorado Springs, and they fell in love with the Southwest.
And Mom got into collecting turquoise and Indian jewelry.
And this is Navajo, but she had also Hopi and Zuni and... GUEST: Usually got the pieces in S, uh, Santa Fe or Taos.
I was probably in middle school... APPRAISER: Okay.
GUEST: ...when she got this, so I don't really know what she paid.
APPRAISER: You have a Navajo squash blossom necklace here.
It's made out of silver and turquoise.
It dates to about 1930.
This was probably made for the trade.
GUEST: Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: During the first half of the 20th century, there was a heavy tourism through S, in Santa Fe, in the Southwest, because of the railroad system.
GUEST: Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: The naja in the center is a Spanish design that was adapted by Native peoples in the Southwest and Plains.
The original form was used on horse bridles, and it would have been on the center of the brow band, and then it was later adopted into the squash blossom necklace.
The squash blossoms are the little pendants along the side here.
These are very stylized ones.
Typically, they're a ball bead that flares out.
Your beads are handmade beads.
So they made the beads in two parts, and if you look at 'em really closely, you'll see that the metal points outward.
So they would dome them and make them in two parts and then punch 'em from the inside-- you see the seam-- and then they were welded together.
The naja is a hammered technique.
It's a more traditional silver technique.
Any idea on its value?
GUEST: In 2021, my brother, little brother, got a verbal, just somewhere around $2,000.
APPRAISER: So at auction, I would expect this to sell in the $2,000 to $4,000 range.
GUEST: Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: If you were to insure it... GUEST: Mm-hmm?
APPRAISER: ...I would insure it for, in the $5,000 to $6,000 range.
GUEST: $5,000 to $6,000, okay.
APPRAISER: It's a lovely, lovely early example.
GUEST: Okay, all right-- thank you.
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Preview: Georgia State Railroad Museum, Hour 3
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