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Navajo Pauline Benally Sterling Shadowbox Cuff

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:125.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 700.00 USD
Navajo Pauline Benally Sterling Shadowbox Cuff
For your consideration this lot features a Vintage Navajo Pauline Benally Sterling Shadowbox Cuff Bracelet with Red Branch Coral Cabochons, circa 1970s-1980s. Features five (5) free-form red branch coral cabochons set into sawtooth bezels recessed inside a shadowbox setting with hand stamped details. This style is the hallmark of Navajo Pauline Benally. If you look up her work, you will see she produced bracelets in this form, which was especially popular in the 1970s and 1980s. The bracelet is made with the bezels set upon the bottom foundation, with a sheet of stamped silver set almost flush with the top of the bezels, cutouts where the red branch coral pops through. Hallmark "P Benally" and "Sterling" stamped on inside. This stunning Navajo cuff bracelet is in very nice preserved condition. Measures 7" inside circumference, 2.5"L, 2"D, weight 43.5 grams.