When my mother was young she traveled out west to Arizona and New Mexico to visit her sister frequently. When she was there she would buy silver souvenir jewelry from the Native Americans. When I was out of work I brought some of the pieces to gold and silver buyers, We Buy Gold. What they paid for it was enough to get me buy until I found another job. Things happen for a reason and that must have been the reason she bought all this silver jewelry. She never wore it.