Diné (Navajo) Small Sterling Silver Pill Box with Turquoise [SOLD]

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Artist Previously Known
  • Category: Silver Objects
  • Origin: Diné of the Navajo Nation
  • Medium: sterling silver, turquoise
  • Size: 1-1/2” x 1” x 3/8” deep
  • Item # C3455E
  • SOLD

This is an older, probably circa 1950s sterling silver lidded box with traditional stamping on the lid and handmade silver hinges on the back.  There is a small domed turquoise cab on top of the lid.

 

Condition: very good condition with excellent patina

Provenance: from the collection of a resident of Santa Fe

Recommended Reading: Masterworks and Eccentricities: The Druckman Collection; Navajo and Pueblo Jewelry and Metalwork 1880-1950 [SOLD] by Robert Bauver

 

Artist Previously Known
  • Category: Silver Objects
  • Origin: Diné of the Navajo Nation
  • Medium: sterling silver, turquoise
  • Size: 1-1/2” x 1” x 3/8” deep
  • Item # C3455E
  • SOLD

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