Signature recognition

[stockoldstuff]

Anyone recognize this signature?  It is on a sterling silver bracelet.

 

[silverstatetreasureboxes]

@stockoldstuff 

Hi there! What are we looking at? I mean is it a NA piece?  If you could supply a front view of the bracelet that could assist a poster to narrow it down.

     When you 1st look at signature, you say oh that's " Brian Benjamin" or " Ben Bengay" ... Yours looks so easy to ID, but sometimes it really can fool ya!

    Thanks,  awaiting for picture!

[maeday76]

I think the last name reads Benjamin. Is it possible that its Israeli? 

[silverstatetreasureboxes]

@maeday76 

That's what I thought too until I viewed the signature...no match.

That's why I requested a picture. The " punched hole signature looks Native American to me. If this is a NA piece it will be easier to find.

[maeday76]

Roger that. I am going through a trial by fire at the moment, learning all my N.A. sigs and family names. 

Its wild how few the last names are in the indigenous SW. For example, I have two pots. (One is up for sale on here, the other is probably going to stay mine.)  Adakai and Skeets are two of the myriad names you'll see ACROSS the Navajo/SW spectrum. Silver, pottery, drums, you name it. 

Benally, Begay, Johnson, Kee, Skeets, Jackson and Etsitty are some that jump to mind. 

It DOES look NA. What I can't figure is the first name. Those are definitely dots over i's, no? 

[silverstatetreasureboxes]

@maeday76 

Yup all NA and we must not forget " Yazzy"!

When I first looked at the pic, I said oh Brian Benjamin, oh course that didn't pan out then Brian Bergner, Israeli, nope. 

[stockoldstuff]

I will add a photo as soon as I get back to office.  All responders have been great

[stockoldstuff]

 

 

[silverstatetreasureboxes]

@stockoldstuff 

Well thank you for the pictures. Where on this piece is it stamped 925 or stamped sterling? I just can't break this name down. Maeday and both thought it could be a Brian Bergner piece as his modernist style fits in with your piece. But he only signs his stuff "Brian."

    I cannot find anything on the NA sites that correspond with your signature and now that I see it, it could be a local artisan that made it, maybe N.M. or AZ

     I have also searched other online shopping sites putting in keywords " chunky, heavy, modernist, bangle. Lot of those roads lead back to B. Bergner.

     You can always still sell this piece if you cannot find out the silversmith signature, just put " designer signed, unknown. Weigh the piece and do the conversion to silver troy oz and go from there.

     I'm sorry I was unable to assist you more, sincerely Silver

[hellokatz2012]

I too have this same bracelet!

It says Brian very clear; the last name looks like Bejamin, yet the tail end of the last name is a scribble.

The bracelet was purchased at a department store, years ago, in Concord, California.