Best Rare Example Navajo Guild Early Cast Bolo c. 1930s Sterling Silver .925

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Best Rare Example Navajo Guild Early Cast Bolo c. 1930s Sterling Silver .925:
$525.00

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I\'m offering for your consideration an exceptional early-mid-Century Navajo Guild cast bolo. The Navajo Arts and Crafts Guild jewelry is very collectible. It was founded to revive the standards for high quality Native crafts after a degradation from tourist-oriented crafts, and formed by the Navajo Tribal Authority in the late 1930\'s in order to help young Navajo silversmiths learn from the great masters and maintain the quality of classic Navajo silver work. The Guild\'s standards were exacting and their instructors were among the most accomplished Navajo jewelers of the period. The individual makers did not sign Guild pieces which could only be marked with the horned sun logo of the NACG and the word \"Navajo.\" So some of the instructors\' work is among these pieces along with the students\' work and a lot of time is spent wondering who really made which of the pieces, but that can\'t really be proven. People love to say they think Fred Peshlakai made theirs, or Kenneth Begay made this one or Ambrose Roanhorse made that one, and many dealers make these speculations on pieces they are selling, but all the pieces were made with the intention that no one can tell who made them. What is known is that the Navajo Guild silver includes some of the finest Navajo jewelry of the 20th century and is highly collectible and desirable. It is generally characterized by its classic technique, clean and elegant lines, restrained use of stamp work and limited use of stones. All of this is exemplified in this classic, fine, bolo.

This bolo has all those elements of fine and elegant simplicity. The dimensions are as follows. The bolo measures 1-13/16\" x 1-5/16\", the nice original hand made and stamped old tips measure a length of about 2-1/16\", the tie was replaced so while there are some scuffs on the back primarily, it\'s flexible and is it good shape. It measures 44\" end to end with the tips included. The tie is held by hand made wires, consistent with the age of the bolo. It is signed Navajo with the Guild horned sun logo symbol that looks like Aladdin\'s Lamp to me, the proper hallmark for the NACG It is correct in every way and it\'s in wonderful vintage, collectible and wearable condition. I\'ve included a picture of a Navajo Guild belt I also have in the store, above, being offered separately.

This bolo is museum quality and I recommend it for the best collections. Every collection should include as much Navajo Guild pieces as possible in my view. This bolo will always be suitable and elegant. I believe that you will delight in it, as I do.

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