Gallery

Below are a few pieces done over the last few years. Some can be replicated. If you see something you like, contact our silversmith.

This Celtic brooch is actually meant to be a hairpiece; the blunt pin is to be inserted through a braid. Constructed by fabrication and forging.

 

 

 

This pendant is made with handcut silver wire and a large rhodochrosite cabachon. Every piece is handmade, including the filed bail at the top.

The pattern is from August Rose's Jewelry Design, a turn-of-the-last-century textbook on jewelry (mostly silver) design and fabrication.

 

 

 

 

A leaping flame? Someome waving their hands victoriously over their head? A treasure (maybe alive...) in a drop of water?

A little of all these went into the design of this shell-set brooch.

 

 

 

We used to love working in turquoise and silver, but not many people value it east of the Mississippi. So we slowly said goodby to it. All were set with quality stones from the western mines. Often the stones were put into abstract, asymmetrical settings like this ring.

Many thanks to our friend Sharon Lonewolf who sold these for us at pow-wows in Oklahoma.

 

Muppet, a very opinionated feline who used to live with us, was the model for this plain silver brooch my wife still wears with scarves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I set this trilobite in a ring for myself after a conference some years ago where I realized I needed something for people to easily remember me by. The old fossil has gotten out a bit more since then, including back briefly in a shallow sea, the Gulf of Mexico.

I enjoyed seeing the trilobite brooch in Phil Foglio's Girl Genius, which we all recommend reading.

 

Four separately-forged lizards (alligators? dragons?) circle this rather rare purple charoite. The band of this ring includes the Egyptian water hieroglyph.