Featured Navajo Bracelet

The ring and mark have this on line comment....

" I recently purchased this ring at an auction. I thought that the hallmark looked familiar, but couldn't place it. It surely must be one of the Begay's, I thought. Also, it was 14K, unusual in itself. So, I sent off an email to Perry Null and he has kindly identified it for me. It's Harvey Begay, son of Kenneth Begay.

Do as you do, I will not protest...

But, I will disagree...

The marks above are said to be Harvey Begay....and I don't see this style of bracelet work as coming from his hand.
Nor do I see the Bahe signature mark as being Begay's.
In all my years of selling South West Indian jewelry......I have never sold a piece where I did not clean off black marker pawn shop scribble....as it meant nothing to the item involved....to me or my clients.

Komo

 

thanks Komokwa
I'm not convinced with it being made by Begay as I haven't found anything concrete that he did this mark - it might just be a trip down another rabbit hole to try and figure out who made it, but certainly worth trying.
For removing marks off items, I'm usually for it but in this case I'll leave them in place. If the next person wants to remove them they can, but to me they add history to the piece

 

& I do understand that CX......but to me....pawn shop price & stock markings of unknown origin.....are more a distraction from the work itself.....rather than history...
IMHO !

 

Can't believe it but the maker has been found I've just heard from Perry Null Trading, they had a ring by him on eBay. I sent them photos - the mark is for Hemerson Brown, he is from the Gallup area and they buy directly from him so you can't get a better confirmation than that. The turquoise is Green Kingman turquoise.
This has been interesting and fun, thanks for all the input folks
@Nancy Neal I hope you see this to get the correct information

 

Perry Null.....where have i heard that name before ??

If that's his mark...the siggy site should be advised.....
That said......way to go CX !!!!

 

lol, I didn't realize it was the same people until I read the heading on the e-mail, but then I figured if you mentioned them they must be legit

I sent a message to them, included a photo of the mark and e-mail from Perry Null co, hopefully they will change or add this one to the site.

 

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