Featured Native American Sterling Bolo...Artist Signed..Signature ID Help??

Any help appreciated...

 

At 1st glance it looks more art deco than NA.......but i'll check some Zuni channel work for the stamp....

 

Tracey Knifewing....Navajo !

 

Hi,
It is really lovely.
greg

 

Some say " Ray Tracey Knifewing ".....but I''m not certain that's accurate..

 

And it's not......here's Ray Tracey.....

 

Very Cool....I also thought it has a Deco Look!!,,Thanks for your help!!

 

Found this on Ebay...You are right !!

Thanks again kpmokwa

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ESTATE-TRAC...5d50084&pid=100011&rk=2&rkt=8&sd=351920592574

 

I'm pretty sure that is the mark on older Ray Tracey pieces (the one shown by Komo is a newer mark) ... I'm searching around for a pendant that I rec'd directly from the firm in the 90's when I was a buyer for a jewelry store.
Here it is

 

That may be , but Quirky brings up a good point.....
After years of non production....Ray partners with a company to market his work in Japan.
That may have caused his stamp to be revisited and reworked....

Better experts than I may wish to research this further............

 

Sperls....it's still a special piece.......!

 

Thanks Komo...I do like this piece!

The inlays are Onyx,Coral & ????

 

Chinese turquoise, I believe.

edited to add that there is also turquoise mined in North America that is pale with heavy matrix veining ... could also be variscite (or even whatever that stone is that people now call "white turquoise" - [not howlite] ).

I'm second guessing myself since I'm not sure if the color I'm seeing on my monitor is what it looks like in real life.

 

The black stones are probably dyed chalcedony,the white stones could be howlite,magnesite.

 

Thank you All!!

 

The orange is spiny oyster shell. The black is either onyx or obsidian/apache tear. The pale white/blue probably is howlite, not that it matters. In this case the money is in the design.

 

I'd say the black is jet, & the red is coral.
Spiny oyster usually has more shadows & lines in it.

 

Possible. There isn't enough of it to worry about, frankly.