CALVIN BEGAY Navajo S Silver Multigemstone Necklace Set SORRY, NO FREE SHIPPING ON INTERNATIONAL ORDERS US ONLY Start Price USD 819.95 Current Price USD 819.95 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, November 19, 2008 End Time Saturday, November 29, 2008 Location Topeka, Kansas See more about 'CALVIN BEGAY Navajo S Silver Multigemstone Necklace Set' Description SORRY - NO FREE SHIPPING ON INTERNATIONAL ORDERS -- FREE SHIPPING FOR US ORDERS ONLY! Buy this item and all others ship FREE as well (buyer pays insurance only on other items.) Calvin Begay is to contemporary Navajo inlay work what H*a*r*r*y  M*o*r*g*a*n was to revivalist lapidary work. Many critics consider Calvin the best Navajo inlay artist working today. Calvin began making jewelry at age 10, and over the years has won numerous awards at the Gallup Ceremonial including the top prize, Best in Show in 1989, and Best Box in 1991. His designs have been featured in "Arizona Highways" magazine and other southwestern magazines and can be found in several prestigious private collections and exhibitions. Calvin often says that his most significant artistic inspiration has been the famed Fabergé eggs with their complex designs and use of many precious and semi gemstones that Calvin also utilizes in his designs. This creative spirit also finds time to compete in rodeos and drive his all terrain vehicles in the remote desert back country of the Navajo reservation and environs. Calvin lives where he was raised -- in the small Navajo community of Tohatchi, New Mexico. When you consider and hopefully buy Calvin Begay pieces, be sure Calvin made it. In the recent past, Calvin worked for a well known Gallup manufacturing company creating original designs for them to sell. Most of his jewelry designs bear the hallmark initials of the company he worked for and their copyright, Calvin's script hallmark, and the hallmark of the artist who actually did the silver and inlay work. While this is still valuable, it's the second kind of Calvin's work that a collector should buy. These are pieces that Calvin himself made and bear only his and and his former company's hallmarks. Link inlay pieces are among the most labor intensive -- if not the most labor intensive -- of all genres of Native American jewelry. In non Native American jewelry, machines not only create the links and inlay channels but connect them as well -- all in matter of just a few seconds. Hand crafted jewelry, however, is considerably longer. Each bezel is created by hand and then, in the case of this necklace, hand connected with hand made hinges. This truly incredible necklace features forty-seven graduated channel inlay beads inlaid with earthtones -- tiger's eye, Sleeping Beauty turquoise, yellow jasper, Acoma black jet, lab created turquoise blue opal, and Wild Horse. Each bead is a hair thicker than 1/8th," and they range in size from the ¼" square beads at the to the ¾" by ¼" center bead. These larger beads in the necklace's center feature as many as six individual micro inlays. The back of every bead is solid sterling silver -- Calvin never cuts corners. Finally, this masterpiece boasts a hidden clasp and safety chain that befits its high value. The matching drop post back hinged earrings for pierced ears feature inlaid turquoisem Wild Horse, brown and golden yellow tiger's eye, black jet. and lab created turquoise opal. The top inlay channel is ¼" square, amd the bottom channel is 9/16ths" by slightly more than 3/16ths" for a total length of 7/8ths." For your comfort, Calvin used special cushioned clutches that secure the posts. Calvin's work is collected by clients not only in the southwest but across the country and throughout the world. This necklace set carries a retail value of more than $2100 in the southwest. This is museum quality Calvin Begay work -- no surrogates! Calvin's script hallmark, the manufacturing company's hallmark, and the sterling stamp are located on the back of the necklace's hidden box clasp and the backs of both earrings. Payment is expected no later than ten days after your purchase. Questions: Questions about this item only, please, from serious buyers only and NO questions that are answered in the product description. Most of the questions I receive have nothing to do with the item or are answered in the product description. 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