Thomas Singer was a Navajo silversmith, and this is the deepest single-artist collection in our store. Much of it came out of the owner's own personal collection rather than off a wholesale order, which is why the group runs broader and more varied than the Singer work most galleries carry.
Singer worked primarily in sterling silver, and the look most people recognise is his two-tone style: 14K gold set against silver so a single piece reads in two colours at once. The other constant is overlay. A design is cut through a top sheet of silver, the layer beneath is darkened, and the figure comes forward as pure line and shadow. The animal pendants here are the clearest example of it. Bears, turtles and buffalo, each cut and finished by hand, in sizes from small everyday pendants up to real statement pieces. Collectors and galleries also credit Singer with developing the chip-inlay technique in the 1960s, crushing turquoise and coral into a silver channel, a method that spread widely across Navajo silverwork afterwards.
Alongside the overlay pieces you will find his hand-made bead necklaces, earrings, and work set with natural stone, including turquoise and denim lapis. Where a piece carries his stamp, its own listing says so.
Because Singer has passed away, nothing here can be reordered. What is on this page is what exists, and when a piece sells it is gone. If you are building a collection, that is worth knowing before you decide. You can see the two-tone work in person at our showroom in Old Town Scottsdale, or browse the rest of our 14K gold jewelry.