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Giant Sterling and Moonstone Peace Dove Necklace '60s browse these categories for related items... All Items: Estate Jewelry: Silver: Modernism: Pre 1970: item # 855705 GlitzQueen History and Art to Wear 56 Calle Monte Aplanado, NW Albuquerque, NM 87120 Phone: 505.205.1404 Guest Book $155 Free USPS Priority Shipping (& Gift-Wrap if Desired) |
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If you're looking for a "statement necklace," here it is -- unmistakably making the statement "Peace and Love" via a gorgeous domed pendant 3 1/4 inches round! This handcrafted vintage pendant of hammered sterling features a stylized dove whose breast, wing and tail are formed with cutout hearts. Adorned with a collet-set cabochon of blue-white moonstone -- the prized color that's so hard to find today -- it also has a glinting eye of lightly gold-washed silver. The marks are Sterling, Eden and Eden repeated within an apple shape. I find no record of a firm called Eden, so this must be the creation of an independent designer. That would also explain the Sterling mark, which large-scale makers replaced with 925 during the 1930s. Dating has to be during the Vietnam War -- far more likely the hippie '60s than the disco '70s, based on design. Of course, given the elegance of this jewel, its style is far from basic Boho; it's what we poor college students of the time enviously called Trust Fund Hippie. Provenance is a Cape Cod estate and condition, as you see, is superb. We added the contemporary sterling chain 20 inches long. There's no charge for insured U.S. shipping and gift-wrap is always free when desired. Please e-mail erinharris@comcast.net to confirm availability, order or request more photos. Thanks for looking! |
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