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This vintage sterling silver bracelet has been beautifully crafted by Ray Tracey and Knifewing Segura. This is a vintage piece which is crafted by heavy sterling silver. The bracelet measures 5 1/8" around the inside plus an additional 1" opening at the back for a total of 6 1/8" around. The bracelet weighs 1.4 ounces or 40 grams. This bracelet is signed with their TK feather hallmark and is in great vintage condition.
"Tracey Knifewing" refers to the highly collectible jewelry line created during the historic collaborative partnership between award-winning Navajo (Diné) jeweler Ray Tracey and Chiricahua Apache artist Knifewing Segura. Pieces stamped with this hallmark are renowned for their heavy-gauge sterling silver construction, bold geometric channels, and vibrant, flawless stone inlays.
Throughout the 40 years that I have been in business, I have purchased jewelry from pawn shops throughout the Southwest that had collections of dead pawn. Most of these pawn shops and trading posts are now closed. The Native American would pawn his jewelry for immediate cash. The shop would hold it and charge interest until he could reclaim it. Dead pawn are the pieces that were never retrieved. Old Pawn Jewelry typically dates from the early 1900s to the 1970s. Most of the early pieces are not signed because it wasn't the Native American tradition to sign the pieces they crafted. Also, the turquoise in old pawn is turquoise that you can't get anymore because many of the mines have closed. And, the red and orange coral is rare because of the coral bleaching which is happening today.
