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Navajo Raymond Begay Tufa Cast Sterling Bracelet

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:150.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 650.00 USD
Navajo Raymond Begay Tufa Cast Sterling Bracelet
The lot features an excellent tufa cast sterling silver bracelet or cuff from amazing Navajo Native American Indians silversmith artist, Raymond Begay. The bracelet has a heavy sterling silver construction and is stamped, “Sterling Ray B”. The bracelet is made using the very unique Tufa casting method, a method used by some of the first Navajo silver makers in the 1870’s. Tufa Casting Sterling Silver gives a fine stippled finish, much like Old Pawn jewelry and is widely collectible due to its heavy construction. This bracelet shows Tufa casting with a raw hammered like finish having slight stamping with polished effigy figures including a bear heart line, bear claw paw, and strong southwest blanket like pattern. The bracelet measures overall 7” long inside circumference wrist size including the opening (the opening by itself measures 1 1/8”W) by 1”W.