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- 211123-054 Large Vintage Navajo Bracelet with 7 turquoise settings, Roger Skeet, Jr.
211123-054 Large Vintage Navajo Bracelet with 7 turquoise settings, Roger Skeet, Jr.
makers mark "RS"
ca 1970
7" + 1 1/2" gap x 1 1/2" wide
With an impressive assortment of high quality Natural Turquoise settings.
Roger Skeet, Jr. (B.1933) learned to make silver literally at his Father’s knee. His father, the renowned silversmith, Roger Skeet, Sr. was one of the famed Indian trader, C.G. Wallace’s primary in-house Navajo silversmiths along with such other accomplished luminaries as Austin Wilson and Ambrose Roanhorse. Skeet Sr. worked for Wallace at his landmark trading post at the Zuni Pueblo in far Western New Mexico for approximately 30 years from the late 1920’s until his death in 1959.
Roger Skeet, Jr. was born in 1933 and he began making silver alongside his Father in Wallace’s trading post as an eight year-old boy. The silverwork of both the Skeets is quite similar, clean-lined and very traditionally-crafted but with a distinctly modern sensibility and always extremely fine detailing. Roger Skeet, Sr. never signed his pieces while Roger Skeet, Jr. used a simple hallmark of his capital letter initials “RS”.