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Tear Drop Coral Bracelet

Navajo

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Title: Tear Drop Coral Bracelet
Artist: Navajo
Medium: Sterling & coin silver and natural red orange Mediterrean coral
Troy ounces: 3.51 troy ounces
Size: Cuff bracelet end to end 5 5/8" with an opening 1 3/8". Average width is 2 1/4".
Date of creation: Mid 1940's - early 1950's
Condition: Perfect with natural patina and surface of 60 or more years of careful wearing
Design: Rolled sheet from ingot, hand-made stamping, chisel work and repousse
Provenance: Consigned by gentleman who inherited his grandmother's art collection CP
Gram weight: 108.9 grams; Quick Inquiry Email Friend

About The Tear Drop Coral Bracelet

Amazing silver and coral cuff, most likely Navajo made. It is uncommonly striking, especially for a wearer who embraces the color of coral.

The very attractive thunderbird over arrow mark is unknown, but an old stamp seen in several jewelry pieces we've handled dating from decades prior to World War II.

This handsome, almost Deco to post Modern bracelet has 6 of the most perfectly matched tomato red tear drop cabochons, staggered diagonally across the front! Not only is it difficult, in natural material, to find one piece from which to produce a single 11/16" X 3/8" cab, but 6 such large pieces exactly the same in color and grain were scarce 50 to 60 years ago and next to impossible today.

This beautiful, rare find will fit a 6 3/4" to 7" wrist very well. This singular bracelet is virtually a "glass slipper" and will have to be a fated match with its new owner.

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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