Navajo, New Mexico
1980s
Sterling silver, leather
Eleven conchos, each 1 1/2 inches by 1 3/4 inches (3.8 by 4.4 cm)
Buckle 1 3/4 inches by 2 inches (4.4 by 5.1 cm)
Belt length 48 inches (121.9 cm)
Weight 225.96 grams
Hallmarked RS
Provenance: Private collection, Deming, New Mexico
Eleven rectangular conchos and a matching buckle are worked entirely in stamp work, each plaque carrying a central field of paired repousse bosses and stepped terrace forms enclosed by heavy scrolled crescents at the top and bottom edges. The stamping is deeply struck and crisply repeated, the dies driven hard enough to raise the silver into relief rather than merely scoring the surface, and the recesses have darkened while the crowns remain bright. The buckle repeats the concho design at reduced width with the tongue passing through a plain rectangular opening at the center.
Roger Skeet Jr. was born in 1932 and learned silversmithing from his father, Roger Skeet Sr., working alongside him until the elder Skeet's death in 1959. Roger Skeet Sr. produced work in quantity for C. G. Wallace at Zuni and is associated with heavy stamp work and dies of his own making. The son's work is hallmarked RS, while the father's is unmarked, and the two are otherwise close enough in style to be difficult to separate on visual grounds alone.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
Navajo, New Mexico
1980s
Sterling silver, leather
Eleven conchos, each 1 1/2 inches by 1 3/4 inches (3.8 by 4.4 cm)
Buckle 1 3/4 inches by 2 inches (4.4 by 5.1 cm)
Belt length 48 inches (121.9 cm)
Weight 225.96 grams
Hallmarked RS
Provenance: Private collection, Deming, New Mexico
Eleven rectangular conchos and a matching buckle are worked entirely in stamp work, each plaque carrying a central field of paired repousse bosses and stepped terrace forms enclosed by heavy scrolled crescents at the top and bottom edges. The stamping is deeply struck and crisply repeated, the dies driven hard enough to raise the silver into relief rather than merely scoring the surface, and the recesses have darkened while the crowns remain bright. The buckle repeats the concho design at reduced width with the tongue passing through a plain rectangular opening at the center.
Roger Skeet Jr. was born in 1932 and learned silversmithing from his father, Roger Skeet Sr., working alongside him until the elder Skeet's death in 1959. Roger Skeet Sr. produced work in quantity for C. G. Wallace at Zuni and is associated with heavy stamp work and dies of his own making. The son's work is hallmarked RS, while the father's is unmarked, and the two are otherwise close enough in style to be difficult to separate on visual grounds alone.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
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