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A pair of Zuni needlepoint dangle clipback earrings 50-60 years old (one blossom is missing if you look closely).   They are 2.25 inches long, $240. (SOLD)
The Navajo ring set with the oval blue/blue-green turquoise is 1 5/8 inch long and dates to roughly the 1940s.   The style starts much earlier but the provenance suggests
the WWII era.   $200.
The tiny ring ($60) and the snake ($125) are from the same collection as the four bracelets.   The snake (not a rattler!) is 1.75 inches long.
Based upon the pin back, the thunderbird (wingspan: 1 7/8 inch) was likely made somewhere between the 1920s and the 1930s.   $240.

The top bracelet, set with 7 natural turquoise is constructed of two triangle wire with a square twist wire in the middle, pretty typical of the 1920’s - 30's time period.   7/8 inch wide, $450.

From about the same time period, of rolled ingot, and set with 7 green turquoise (one of which is chipped) this was probably made in a workshop as it has STERLING stamped in on one end.   1 inch wide, $450.

A late twenties, early thirties piece judging by the style and use of square twist wire.   Four cracked turquoise.   1.25 inches wide, $450.

Hard to narrow the date on this one, as it could be anywhere from the turn of the century on into the early 1940s.   Hand-drawn round wire on the shank.   I know people like to use that as proof of a very early date, but I know of silversmiths who were hammering ingot up to WWII and others who still draw their own wire.   Just under ¾ inch wide, $175.

This bracelet, set with what appears to be turquoise from the Morenci Mine, was made sometime in the 1950s or 60s.   It is a small (5 ¼ inches plus 1 inch opening) and 1.6 inches across at the widest point.   $450

This unusually long (almost 31 inches) Navajo squashblossom necklace probably dates from the 1940s.   $975.

This plain silver Navajo squash blossom has a number of things going for it.   Eleganty proportioned, the beads are heavy weight, they are graduated and the nazha is an unusual form.   Dating this one is tough.   In terms of weight and workmanship and a few stylistic details (including the notched tabs on the blossoms) it could easily be well before WWII, but the nazha makes me want to put a more conservative 1940s date range on it.   Either way, it’s a wonderful necklace, 25 inches long.   $2200.