Simply elegant bracelet by Navajo artist Franklin Thompson. The basis of the cuff is a swedged tri-wire "spine" or shank flanked by five oval cut bezel set turquoise on one side and five bezel set tomato red coral on the other. The high grade turquoise is laced with a dramatic dark matrix. Between each bezel and at the end of each row, there are silver "raindrops".
Description | Simply elegant bracelet by Navajo artist Franklin Thompson. The basis of the cuff is a swedged tri-wire "spine" or shank flanked by five oval cut bezel set turquoise on one side and five bezel set tomato red coral on the other. The high grade turquoise is laced with a dramatic dark matrix. Between each bezel and at the end of each row, there are silver "raindrops". |
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About the Artist | Franklin Thompson is a Navajo silversmith who has worked as a smith for the Atkinson Trading Post on the Navajo Nation at Cameron in northeastern Arizona. His hallmark, a stamped initial and surname was first used in 1975. |
Medium | Sterling silver, coral and turquoise |
Size | Interior measurement is 5 1/8" plus opening is 1 1/2". At widest point cuff is 3/4" in width tapering to 1/4". |
Signed | F. Thompson is imprinted on bracelet's interior |
Date of creation | Circa 1970's |
Condition | Excellent |
Turquoise | Natural oval blue green turquoise with dark matrix |
Provenance | Out of pawn jewelry from the Jewel Box Collection, closed May 2006 |