Albert Jake was born in 1959 at Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico. He has been smithing silver for over fifteen years and is also a sand painter and makes pottery. We began buying Albert's pieces in 1999. He always uses fine quality stones in his work.

This ring by Navajo silversmith Albert Jake is set with a large free-form stone of natural, untreated Broken Arrow Variscite from Nevada. This is a classic design of Albert's (which he has also taught to and allowed his nephew Alvin Lee to re-create). Albert used the same technique as he uses for his pendants by surrounding this stone with a sculpted border rich with detailed and perfectly precise stampwork. The stone is set in a straight-edged bezel wrapped with twist wire. The shank is split into four narrower bands before attaching to the ring back and he used radiating stampwork in the shape of a triangle to decorate the sides of the shank.

Hallmarked "A" and stamped "Sterling" inside the shank.

Stone: 1 3/16" x 11/16"

Ring face: 1 9/16" x 1 1/8"

Width of shank in back: 3/16"

Size: 10

See our entire collection of jewelry set with Broken Arrow Variscite!