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Ashtray with Zuni sunface stamped design by Navajo silversmith Austin (Ike) Wilson circa 1940/50's.

Wilson worked at Zuni for C.G Wallace on his own silver pieces as well as making settings for Zuni inlay artists.

Some Twentytwelve's

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Let's hope for a better debate tonight!
*one of my favorite Rose Bowl sellers flashing his base layer
**(nice buckle too)

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Navajo cuff, C. 1940's-50's trading post/tourist piece, picked up in Gallup, NM this week...monster scale and nice stamp work on this guy.
P.S~Please don't make me go back to Gallup.

Lost Weekend/Wizards

A few of my favorite weekend wizards/wear~first shot, left hand Frank Vacit (Zuni) ring and clasped cuff, right hand petty point whirling log ring and Zuni mosaic/channel inlay horse bracelet. I love this lady's yei trimmed suit and monster squash blossom-serious. Fellow at the bottom had some neat pin scatter, the Juan Dideos cast silver/turquoise knifewing top right is A+.

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Mosaic inlay cuff by Zuni jeweler John Gordon Leak circa 1940's-50's. Leak is one of my favorite of the C.G Wallace artists, his inlay work is blocky/simplified and always set into jet~in knife wing, dragonfly and butterfly designs. The tomahawk hallmark is Little Joe Begay, it was common for Wallace to have the Zuni do the inlay and Navajo silversmiths do the setting. (I'm not sure when this hallmark began to appear-you can see it on a few pieces also in Toshio Sei's book)

~picked up in Arizona...more Zuni.