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Snuffy Smith pendant by Carol Kee, mid-late 1970's (old time tooner)
*more Zuni Toons if you scroll along down here.

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Violet's V dress/jewels.
Lesley's slingshot moc's.

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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.

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United Airlines belt buckle~silver with turquoise & coral chip inlay made by Navajo jeweler Tommy Singer...I'm not sure how many of these Singer made, this one is stamped 17 on the reverse and has the TS hallmark. I love how the graphic sweep of the letters is slowed by the materiality of the micro tiled inlay.

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Henry/Mickey and Mickey face rings, Zuni 60's-70's~coral-mop-turquoise and jet channel inlay.

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LBC finds from sunday AM~Washoe (?) basket-early 20th century, the asymmetrical design, and weaving quality is beautiful on this one/Zuni thunderbird stone to stone inlay bolo circa 1940-50's-has the early soldered wire slide on the back (year of the bolo)/Navajo ring 1950-70's-ingot silver and spiderweb turquoise, unidentified hallmark on band-this thing has a satisfying sculptural weight & balance and a lot of wear- you can see the \\\/// line on the side of the bands are almost gone.

In house relatives here and here.

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Beautiful watch cuff by Navajo jeweler Tommy Singer, 1950's-worn by a chap at LBC yesterday.

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Rainbow man pin by Leo Poblano c 1940's-50's, turquoise, m.o.p, spiny oyster and jet stone.

~a larger pin than most of the others I have, and more intricate stone work, it's hard to see in these shots but the bezel and stones are really worn down on the hand tips and crown-this piece was loved/worn well by it's original owner.

In house relative here.

*thanks to Toshio for helping me identify this!~

his blog here, his (awesome) book here.

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Zuni mosaic inlay Mickey pendant circa 1970's....all the right stones and spacing-unsigned.

In house relatives here-here-here.

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Zuni LBC meltdown~Kachina head w/ antlers-40's-50's Leo Poblano?

Zuni Mickey pin-1970's- Margaret Platero, stamped MP ZUNI.

Kachina Head ring, nice simple stone to stone inlay-marked PONCHO-1970's.

*In house relatives here and here.

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Carol Kee ring~1970's Zuni Charlie Brown, abalone/tortoise shell...from the bowl on Sunday-I looked at this for months, then is vanished, then it returned.

*In house relative here.

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Got super lucky for getting one year older this year-Les went straight to the Wizard for these deep finds. Navajo bracelets-both dating between 1890-1910 hand forged ingot coin silver-the first one being either a leaf or snake design...I've seen this motif on early pieces sometimes surrounded by a paisley type border-I like the subtle rounded quality of the form having been punched out from the back. Second one is a solid pulled ingot wire with either chiseled or filed lines and punched o's with repeated punched design at the terminals-it's heavy-you can see where the silver has been folded on the interior.

In house relatives here-here-here.

Northwest coast relative here.

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Mexican Modern cuff-silver/copper/brass/wizard stone with neat lock latch, 1950's...picked up for the better hand in Glendale-yes Glendale.

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Inlay Snoopy Tennis pin by Zuni jeweler Carol Kee mid 70's~from fleabay to hebay.

*the CK disney stuff is just nuts-I think they tried to sue her :-(.

Mixed Wizard

Two things snagging my mind from the weekend...the Navajo pin display on shrimpo jacket is a good sculpture~the Northwest Coast folk-core leather cap is high wizard gear...I'm almost there but the point to the hat is a sticking point (but it does have a salmon swimming through a portal split over two panels).

*top image from the Golden California Antique Show (amazing!) image gallery here.

~bottom image Rose Bowl.

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Hers-Fleabay x Xmas=:-)

His-Rosebowl x Jan=:-0

(banned by wife-no going bolo till retirment etc)

-both Navajo circa 1940's

Well Honed

Stone carved pendants by Robert Upritchard-worn by Francis and seen at B store, London today-these things are sculpted so beautifully-aye-full details here.