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All Cuff bracelets on the Estate Fresh Austin website will have the size wrist they fit (in inches) including the gap at the beginning of the title, there are also many photos in this listing which will show a tape measure inside the bracelet, gap size, width, etc. The item should also be shown on a scale in the photos. Hallmarks will be shown, if no attribution is made then please assume it was unresearched due to time limitations. All items that are over 40+ years old should have age appropriate wear, more recent items will be extremely clean with no hidden flaws or repairs. The majority of our business on the (Estate Fresh Austin website) is to high end galleries all over the world, so the items we sell are in gallery condition. It is extremely common for 1970's and older Native American jewelry to have no markings whatsoever.
Francis Leekya Zuni fishscale turquoise sterling silver watch tips. Tested and guaranteed solid sterling silver. Circa third quarter of the 20th century. Watch untested. Tips sterling, the rest isn't.
Francis Leekya (1915–2003; Zuni) was a fetish carver and silversmith active across most of the twentieth century. He worked in channel inlay and fish-scale inlay. He was the son of Leekya Deyuse (see Leekya Deyuse) — the celebrated Zuni fetish carver — and the brother of Alice Leekya Homer and Robert Leekya.
Francis Leekya is documented as a practitioner of both carving and silversmithing, carrying forward the Leekya family's multi-generational mastery of Zuni lapidary and inlay arts. His father Leekya Deyuse is among the most celebrated figures in twentieth-century Zuni artistic history.
His brother Robert Leekya (1931–2019; Zuni), active since the 1960s, worked primarily in nugget-style jewelry in silver and gold, and shared the R LB stamp with his wife Bernice Leekya. His sister Sarah Leekya (1932–2017; Zuni), active since the 1940s, worked in channel inlay, mosaic inlay, and carved stone jewelry.
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