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1920's-1930's Three Row Silver Cuff One Mountain Turquoise
Zuni
- About The 1920's-1930's Three Row Silver Cuff One Mountain Turquoise
Ingot silver (sterling quality) and natural highest grade Lone Mountain turquoise were used to create this dramatic cuff.
The bracelet body is composed of three hammered shank strips tapering to a joining bar at each terminal. Rows of flattened, smelted silver drops join these shank straps with a precision alignment echoed by decorative drops bordering the cuff along the front half. These drops frame a massive display of 39 pillow cut rectangular turquoise stones, all perfectly spaced with the drops !
These cabochons are Lone Mountain Nevada material of deepest, intense blue green with webbing of darkest brown to red matrix. Each strone is framed and secured by a hand-cut serrated bezel that subtly compliments its stone and the arrangement in its entirety. Use of a single gable peak stamp repeated, artfully, along the tapering shank bars, dresses the bracelet sides to the terminals.
Savvy Price $8,500.00
Gallery Price $9,000.00
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| Description | Ingot silver (sterling quality) and natural highest grade Lone Mountain turquoise were used to create this dramatic cuff. The bracelet body is composed of three hammered shank strips tapering to a joining bar at each terminal. Rows of flattened, smelted silver drops join these shank straps with a precision alignment echoed by decorative drops bordering the cuff along the front half. These drops frame a massive display of 39 pillow cut rectangular turquoise stones, all perfectly spaced with the drops ! These cabochons are Lone Mountain Nevada material of deepest, intense blue green with webbing of darkest brown to red matrix. Each strone is framed and secured by a hand-cut serrated bezel that subtly compliments its stone and the arrangement in its entirety. Use of a single gable peak stamp repeated, artfully, along the tapering shank bars, dresses the bracelet sides to the terminals. |
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| About the Artist | The best book to explain the steps in creating Zuni cluster jewelry is Oscar Branson's Indian Jewelry Making. Volume II. Look at page 48 illustrating each step to create a cluster bracelet. |
| Culture | American Indian, Zuni |
| Medium | Ingot sterling silver and natural turquoise |
| Size | Overall inside cuff is 5 11/16" from terminal to terminal with a 3/4" opening, an easy fit for a 6" to 6 1/2" wrist. A 7" wrist can also be accommodated. Cuff width is 1 7/16" tapering to 7/8" at each terminal. |
| Signed | Thre is a tradr's code scratched, with a graving point, lightly on the cuff middle bar. It reads MOA=, |
| Date of creation | 1920's-1930's |
| Condition | Flawless |
| Turquoise | Natural Lone Mountain turquoise, prized by all |
| Description | Published in color photograph on jacket of Skystone and Silver, The Collector's Book of Southwest Indian Jewelry by Carl Rosnek and Joseph Stacey (1976) |
| Provenance | MDu, acquired by its current owner from C.G. Wallace. Published in color photograph on jacket of Skystone and Silver, The Collector's Book of Southwest Indian Jewelry by Carl Rosnek and Joseph Stacey (1976) |
| Gram weight | 9.3 grams |
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