Very Early Superb Navajo or Zuni Bracelet Hand Constructed Stamped w Agate 1930s

Description

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WHAT IS GREAT ABOUT IT: This rare early bracelet has an elegant simplicity that is haunting. It's all hand constructed with what feels like coin silver, and has certain stamp work which brings to mind some pieces I've owned by DeDeos and Lambert Homer Sr. The foundation consists of two outside carinated wires and the center wire is two square twisted wires. The carinated wires are beautifully hand stamped, as are the two wings next to the outside of the three stones, framing them with very special beauty. The terminals are capped; all the work is excellent. There is an ephemeral quality to this piece. There are whisps in the agate, as if the whole bracelet is being protected by fairies and secret forest folk. The look has a delicacy about it, but it's not frail.
CONDITION: excellent vintage, wearable, collectible. One of the outside stones has a crack but it looks like part of the banding of the agate so the fingernail finds it more easily than the eye can find it.
MEASUREMENTS:
• width at center 1-1/4", tapering toward the terminals which are 3/8" wide
• internal length silver
alone
5-1/4", gap 1" total 6-1/4"
• weight 38.16grams
• not marked for metal content which is usual, but guaranteed to be at least coin at .900 or sterling at .925 silver
• unsigned, which is common for those times, but the artist is Navajo or Zuni
• dates to the 1930s or 40s
SUMMARY: This bracelet is beautifully hand constructed with wonderful stamp work and lovely agate stones. It's a very early piece and it's one of those elegant masterpieces that will always be very special and highly collectible.
It's a very fine piece; museum worthy and the pricing is way lower than it should be.
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