Selection of 9 Handmade Jewelry Tools [SOLD}

This Diné man’s silversmithing tools were pawned in Gallup, New Mexico, and never reclaimed from pawn. There are 9 individual tools used in the manufacture of Navajo silver jewelry. Some of them are stamps used in decorating jewelry and some are punches.  Some of the tools were made from rat tail files, from flat files and other metal objects.

It is rare for a jeweler to pawn tools that he would need when making jewelry.  It is likely that they were pawned after he passed away, and removing them from pawn was not of interest to the member who pawned them.

Condition: this Selection of 9 Handmade Jewelry Tools is in original condition

Provenance: from a pawn shop in Gallup, New Mexico

Recommended Reading:  The Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths by John Adair, University of Oklahoma Press (1946)