Native American Jewelry Marks And Identification

Initials and picto hallmarks on silver to identify indian native american jewelry hopi navajo zuni.

Native american jewelry marks and identification.

This a directory of native american jewelry hallmarks. 2020 09 09 your help corrections and suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Welcome to my website. Ben yazzie has made fine silver and turquoise jewelry for many many famous country musicians such as charlie daniels dwight yokham the mcentire sisters mark wills and many more ben yazzie and his beautiful wife work together.

Indian native american jewelry artists hallmarks southwest shop trademarks. A hallmark is signature stamp embedded in the metal of a piece of jewelry or metal art. Marks trademarks on indian native american jewelry with letter m to identify silversmith. Native american silversmiths and other jewelry artists use hallmarks to sign their work.

Colorado native ben yazzie is a very famous native american jewelry artisan ben has been making wonderful american handcrafted silver jewelry since the early 1970s. Welcome to my new website. Last update on this website. It can be difficult to identify an artist by their mark because.

2020 03 see here. Indian native american jewelry artists hallmarks southwest shops trademarks. Mark bahti s excellent book collecting southwestern native american jewelry was released in 1980 and included twenty two pages of hallmarks used by american indian silversmiths for the first time from more than a single tribal group as well as a page of shop marks.