🔎 UNIDENTIFIED I’ve had this Native American silver ring (I’m pretty sure it is) for years,but didn’t notice the hallmark that looks like a pot? Any help with an ID?

[DarthYoda333]

 

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[unclemac]

at the least that should help!

 

[vhs07]

Great photos, BTW.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Haven't seen that one attributed to any N/A silversmiths.

 

[sprailroad]

Very nice. Many years ago I worked along the Southern border, and one of the Navaho's on the crew, in the evening made silver jewelry, he stamped them SL. That being a Mr. Stanly Lee. Great guy. Your ring could be from a private guy working alone, could not really know. It IS nice, and I do hope it is a mark that can be identified.

 

[Clay Diggins]

This ring is cast, not constructed. Casting of rings was not a thing in native silver jewelry until the late 1960's. Even then very few native jewelers used casting methods for rings.

I believe the pot mark was used by Big Chief in Chino Valley, Arizona during the early/mid 1970's. The jewelers at Big Chief were not native Americans but they provided much of the silver "Indian" jewelry to the commercial retail market during the southwest Indian jewelry craze of the 1970's. I recall there was one jeweler there that was pleased to inform others that he had "some" native blood.