Eleven oval conchos run the length of this belt, each one domed and stamped with a band of short repeated strokes around the outer rim. At the center of every concho sits a scalloped oval frame enclosing a plain raised boss, so the eye travels inward through three concentric zones before it comes to rest. The silver has darkened in the recesses and stayed bright across the domes, giving each concho a worn depth that only comes with handling.
Between every pair of conchos sits a butterfly spacer, its lobes stamped with rows of teardrops around a single lozenge at the waist, holding the conchos apart at even intervals along the strap. The buckle is rectangular and stamped to match, carrying the same border of short strokes so that nothing in the set reads as an afterthought. The whole is mounted on plain dark leather, worn soft and blackened with age, which keeps the silver forward where it belongs. Sterling silver, hallmarked RS.
Roger Skeet Jr. was born in 1932 into one of the most productive silversmithing families on the Navajo Nation. He learned at his father's bench and took over the work after him, carrying some of the older man's own stamps into his own pieces, which is why the two hands can be difficult to separate on style alone. The mark is what divides them: the father worked unsigned, while Roger Skeet Jr. stamped his initials from around 1950 onward. His stamp work is the strength of a piece like this one, where a single repeated tool does the whole job and the rhythm carries it.
249.71 grams
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
Eleven oval conchos run the length of this belt, each one domed and stamped with a band of short repeated strokes around the outer rim. At the center of every concho sits a scalloped oval frame enclosing a plain raised boss, so the eye travels inward through three concentric zones before it comes to rest. The silver has darkened in the recesses and stayed bright across the domes, giving each concho a worn depth that only comes with handling.
Between every pair of conchos sits a butterfly spacer, its lobes stamped with rows of teardrops around a single lozenge at the waist, holding the conchos apart at even intervals along the strap. The buckle is rectangular and stamped to match, carrying the same border of short strokes so that nothing in the set reads as an afterthought. The whole is mounted on plain dark leather, worn soft and blackened with age, which keeps the silver forward where it belongs. Sterling silver, hallmarked RS.
Roger Skeet Jr. was born in 1932 into one of the most productive silversmithing families on the Navajo Nation. He learned at his father's bench and took over the work after him, carrying some of the older man's own stamps into his own pieces, which is why the two hands can be difficult to separate on style alone. The mark is what divides them: the father worked unsigned, while Roger Skeet Jr. stamped his initials from around 1950 onward. His stamp work is the strength of a piece like this one, where a single repeated tool does the whole job and the rhythm carries it.
249.71 grams
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
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