Weekend TS & flea market gold and silver (also maybe some hallmark assistance?)

[kali_is_my_copilot]

This weekend was surprisingly fruitful for a holiday weekend, started off thrifting all morning Friday and spent $10, which yielded a 50¢ James Avery ichthus tie tack, ~2g 10k scrap chains & 3g 14k earrings, a handful of sterling odds and ends and some tchotchkes.

Saturday was garage sales from 7:30 to 10, 2.5 hours of soccer moms fighting over Lego that turned up a box of dog/mess towels, some books, Slumdog Millionaire & The Matador on dvd, a nice sturdy wooden practice katana and one tiny sterling ring. Stopped by the flea on a whim on my way home and scored a 10k pin and some charms for $5 right away. At the end of my circuit I spent $15 on a sandwich bag of costume & pm bin-picks: a half-oz sterling & tiger's eye ring, a sterling or 950 book charm circa 1950's, a large sterling pendant signed LP, and around 7g unmarked 10 & 14k scrap. All of the gold from Fri and Sat went to my scrap guy Sat afternoon.

Yesterday I headed back to the flea market looking for that same seller but they hadn't made it out. Felt better about it after snagging a 3g 14k puzzle ring for $5 and another quart-size bag of junk jewelry picks from a different vendor. Spent $12 on lots of crap and the non-ring gold pictured below (ring and stud 14, the rest 10). Love the Victorian watch fob but love paying bills more, unfortunately. At least buying ~ 20 g of gold for around $50 over a weekend lessens the sting somewhat.

I'm terrible at taking pictures of stuff before I unload it but here are my takes from yesterday. The last pic is the mark on the reverse of the sterling pendant. The Navajo/other native smiths that sign pieces "LP" used sans-serif lettering, and I haven't found anything else really close online. Anyone got any ideas?

 

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[vpnavy]

Nice buys. Thanks for sharing...

 

[Rodbuster209]

Great finds! Gotta love it when you can get the PM's at a good price. How much did you get when you scrapped it?

 

[diggummup]

There are 1/2 dozen or so Native American artisans listed with those initials. Based on the serif type and style of the piece I will say that it is a Hopi piece that was made by Larry Polivema.

 

[kali_is_my_copilot]

Holy wow that was fast Dig, thanks for the help! I don't scrap silver jewelry very often and suck at motivating myself to put together ebay listings so for the time being that's going into my personal stash (which has grown nicely since I got into this a few months ago). I also know now why I always see lots of sterling rings on ebay, as they are kind of everywhere. Rod, I got $223 for the first ~12 g minus stones etc, still have the rest kicking around to throw in with this week's ebay stuff and whatever I find this weekend. Happy hunting guys!