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Petrified Wood Bracelet and Ring

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Title: Petrified Wood Bracelet and Ring
Artist: Navajo
Medium: Sterling silver and petrified wood
Troy ounces: 2.48 troy ounces cuff, .40 troy ounces ring
Size: Ring size is 6 1/2. Bracelet measures 6" with a 1" opening. Opening can be enlarged.
Signed: No. Not the custom in earlier pieces.
Date of creation: Circa 1940's
Condition: Excellent.
Description: Bezels are hand-made.
Design: Petrified wood in rust brown with black resembling trees and shrubs in a dark landscape. All the cabs (3 in cuff and 1 in ring) are sliced from same piece of stone creating a panoramic triptych in the bracelet.
Provenance: From an estate in Phoenix, KE.
Gram weight: 76.8 grams cuff, 12.5 grams ring; Quick Inquiry Email Friend

About The Petrified Wood Bracelet and Ring

Handmade from ingot material. All wire is hand pulled from the square twisted center piece of the triple shank cuff to the fine, round wire used to frame each bezel and decorate the top and bottom of each setting with tiny wire circles. The fabrication is exquisite right down to the careful stampwork design on the two swaged ingot pieces forming the outer structure of the cuff shank.

The ring shank is also split from a single piece to three is spead to meet the setting.

About Navajo

The Navajo were the first of the Native Americans of the Southwest to learn silversmithing from the Spanish. Most Navajo jewelry emphasizes silver, with turquoise stones used as an accent. Some pieces are cast in sand or tufa molds, while others are hammered, using a male stamp and a female die.

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