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Navajo Tommy & Rose Singer Multi-Strand Necklace

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:450.00 USD Estimated At:1,400.00 - 1,800.00 USD
Navajo Tommy & Rose Singer Multi-Strand Necklace
For your consideration is a Navajo Native American Tommy Singer Sterling & 14K Gold Barrel Bead multi-strand multi-stone necklace. Tommy Singer was a renowned Navajo Silversmith. He grew up on the Navajo Reservation and was taught silversmithing by his father, beginning at the age of seven. Singer is thought to be one of the most important and greatest contemporary silversmith Indian artist and his work is highly sought after. Singer passed away on May 31, 2014. After his death, his wife, Rose, continued to create jewelry using designs Singer created prior to his passing. The necklace shows two large barrel beads marked T & R Singer Sterling and shows eight strand necklace set with black onyx turquoise, malachite, tigers eye, denim lapis lazuli, labradorite, petrified mammoth tooth and more. The necklace has marked sterling aglet tips and the overlaid beads read “T&R Singer Sterling”. The necklace measures 30.5” long clasp end to clasp end. Total weight of 167.5 grams.