If your cuff with the carnelian stones isn’t hallmarked by Jay Bond, who made it?
If anyone has a collection of Jay Bond’s work they have sitting in a drawer and seen by human eyes less than once a year, I’d gladly pay a good price, and I’d wear them.
It is hallmarked, excuse my English, it’s a bit rusty sometimes. I really like it a lot and do wear it regularly (even though it’s a little big size for my wrist). You can see it in this topic:
Oh that’s hallmarked as Jay Bond fer Shure absolutely positively. The bracelet with the red stones is by Jay Bond and it’s the same design as mine with turquoise stones inlaid into, what’s that ring around the stones, a 10 K gold alloy?
If you were told that Jay Bond was Navajo, it’s not true. I believe he was an Ohian, an Anglo from a Christian family in Ohio.
You could use one of the many genealogy family tree and people-finder background report services and try to find info on him in both New Mexico and Ohio. He’s a bit younger than me so year of birth is probably 1960s.
Aspire Auctions has an office in Cleveland, Ohio and a few phone calls to them expressing a strong interest might yield information.
Wow, i hadn’t noticed that, but the rings around the stones do indeed look more like gold or copper. Thanks for pointing this out! And also for all the additional information. I really like the bracelet a lot and consider myself lucky that i found it.
The lack of tarnish indicates gold unless recently polished. Now thanks to this thread I’m going to be looking for one. 
Nobody’s gonna be polishing a thin metal ring holding the stone. And copper is way too soft and like ordinary brass, they’re the wrong color, not gold.
I think it’s an alloy of maybe 10 K (10/24) gold, just enough to shine, and mostly a harder metal.
My photos show a tiny gap in the ring around the stones.
If you really want to get your hands on them, try to find Jay Bond himself.
The more replies to this thread, the higher it’d appear if Jay did an internet search for himself.
Wear it with old-fashioned pride of owning, and displaying, a thing of beauty. If the thin “odometer ribbon” gets a few nicks and bends, that’s proof you haven’t kept it hidden in a drawer or box.
Thank, that is some solid advice!
The one on the bottom seems to have those golden rings around the stones as well. I don’t see it mentioned in the description. I guess it’s safe to say that @dchanin has sharp eagle eyes hehe
$475 is pre 2005 pricing for something of this caliber. The Bezels look like 14K. At the time this was likely made gold was selling for 1/6 - 1/5 of its current price, and silver around the same. Another example of something you couldn’t touch anywhere near this price if it were made recently. Labor is more expensive, but hasn’t risen at anywhere near the same rate. Fair retail value is easily 3 - 4 times the current asking price.
Course, this description also says he’s Native American. I’ve noticed they seem to always list everything as “important.” Not saying it’s not a beautiful cuff and worth a lot, but that’s why I’m so careful of online sites. I mostly want Native American jewelry, and would be unhappy to buy something that has been wrongly attributed.
None of their photos show his hallmark: J (or j) Bond, though they say it’s signed by the maker, which they say is J. Bond, but they don’t show the hallmark on their cuff photos.
Jay’s hallmark is j Bond, without a period after the J. His first initial (in my cuff) is written as a lower-case j, with the dot above (not after) the lower-case letter J.
And the dealer misspelled his name as Jay Bod, in the title no less, so it’s not really of much important to them.
^$150 last bid, so that was including buyer’s premium.
I would say the bracelet is most likely legit @dchanin . If you check the main sites selling NA jewelry for big money you will notice that they will list the maker but rarely if ever do they show the makers mark. IMHO they just don’t want to share the information, or possibly there is no makers mark. Hmm? And at those prices I would expect to see the mark and some provenance with the item.
I would guess J Bond for the simple reason that counterfeits would be wildly improbable. There’s just no market reason for that, nor was there in the past.
Side note: Nativo isn’t rock solid in attributions, and despite high volume is just someone selling online, not in the league of ATADA dealers.
Gasp indeed @Ziacat . The listing states mid-century. According to Pueblo Direct, the Dry Creek Mine was discovered in the early 1990s. And I thought mid-century dated to c1950s.
Good find at Aspire Auctions. His signature maker’s mark is written as a cursive script signature with the “pen” staying in contact from beginning to end. And the initial J looks to be a very stylized lower-case J.
