Featured A few more pieces, southwestern naja necklaces and a sterling dagger pin

Here are a few other pieces plus an extra from my buy last week. I told @Any Jewelry I would post the rest when I got the chance, and today I managed to find time.

Heavy (about 10 ozt if I remember correctly) cast necklace. Signed W A on the naja. Strung on what looks like foxtail chain. This mark does not appear in my first edition of the Little Book of Marks on Southwestern Silver by Hougart.

Sterling naja necklace, stamped R Begay. The mark does not appear in my reference book.


And a piece I’ve had for a little while, a sterling dagger pin (maybe a kirpan). Approx 2-1/2” tall.
And before I forget, thanks to everyone for all the help on the other pieces.

 

nice Turq in the shadow box necklace......good workmanship !

 

I love that dagger ! Was $1800 the price ???

 

My Barton Wright book has a Navajo silversmith named William Anderson whose mark is WA. You would have to check if he makes/made similar work.
It is a great necklace, love the stylized cast squash blossoms.

Not in mine either. Many script Begay marks, but no script R Begay.

Another good piece. Excellent choices.

 

Sweet brooch. Not a kirpan imo, the hilt of a kirpan has a curved top.
More likely some kind of jambiya, so Middle Eastern.
The inlay on the hilt looks pretty real, but I suspect it is Czech Peking glass. Very nice.

 

Yes, it is. Personally I wouldn't call it shadowbox though, not enough "box".
To me this is shadowbox:

 

I think it’s glass as well.

It was no where near $1800 for me but may have been when originally made. Pieces like this fetched much higher prices when they were new. Having that style pricing on it is nice for authenticating NA pieces though.

 

William Anderson and Wilbur Anderson both are in my Billie Hougart book under WA. The Wilbur mark is a linked WA and not consistent with this mark. All the William pieces I can find online also have a sterling mark, and the center of the W is lower than the outer peaks, more like an inverted M than a W. It still could be his mark, and when selling it, I may put “William Anderson?” on it, but it’s an uncertain attribution.