Wide Geometric Cuff Sterling Silver, Copper, Red Brass
Allen Kee
- Savvy Price $3,200.00
- Gallery Price $3,800.00
- Title
- Wide Geometric Cuff Sterling Silver, Copper, Red Brass
- Artist
- Allen Kee
- Medium
- Sterling silver, copper and red brass
- Troy ounces
- 1.71 troy ounces
- Size
- End to end measurement is 5 1/4" with an opening of 15/16". Maximum height or width of cuff band is 2 1/8" to 2 1/4". Terminals are 1 7/8" height.
- Signed
- "A.K." stamped on cuff interior
- Date of creation
- Early 1960's
- Condition
- Excellent
- Description
- Flared access is at an angle, helping the bracelet to stay in position.
- Provenance
- KW, acquired from Jon Bonnell at the White Hogan in 1973. It had been "in stock" for 10 years at that time and had come back to Jon through original owner's family.
- Gram weight
- 53.2 grams
- About The Wide Geometric Cuff Sterling Silver, Copper, Red Brass
Sterling silver sheet, rolled from ingot was the outline and largest component material used to create this unique bracelet. Copper and red brass, rolled by hand, with a hand crank mill were used to fabricate the interrupted chevron decoration wrapping around this work of art from end to end.
Each piece was precisely cut and fit into position, prior to hard soldering the pieces edge to edge, which takes a master to accomplish. There is no overlap anywhere. The soldering was done from one side. The presentation or front of the bracelet was carefully finished to create a smooth, but not mirror polished surface.
Shaping on a mandrel was done to fit the wearer's right wrist with the design exposing the right wrist bone joint.
Only small adjustments can be made due to the very nature of its custom construction.
Both Allen Kee and his cousin, Kenneth Begay, left work at the White Hogan in 1962 to teach young artists on the Navajo reservation.
- About Allen Kee
- (active 1940's to early 1960's) This Navajo artist was a cousin of Kenneth Begay's. Both worked for the White Hogan in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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