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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 212301, member: 45&quot;]Yes, this would date to the 1950s.&nbsp; White Hogan was a Scottsdale shop owned by Virginia and John Bonnell, who hired Navajo silversmiths to produce their modern interpretations of silver jewelry. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Bonnells were not Native American, but they encouraged their employees to add their own hallmarks, along with the shop mark to the pieces they made.&nbsp; It&#039;s important to remember that these were not one-of-a-kind items, but designs that were reproduced by the silversmiths for the White Hogan shop.&nbsp; Any given design could be made by any of the main silversmiths.</p><p><br /></p><p>Allen Kee moved back to the Navajo Reservation in 1962, and produced relatively little jewelry after that.&nbsp; His cousins, Kenneth Begay, and George and Ivan Kee, also left White Hogan but continued to produce work on their own.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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