January 26, 2024 Brian Lebel's Old West Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/26/2024
Rare "A J SCHELL MAKER" marked California style silver overlaid spurs with 14-point rowels, vaquero heel chains affixed to stamped dove wing leather straps with great 1930s Navajo turquoise mounted scalloped silver conchos.
Provenance: Ex-James Gregg Lane Collection (1913-1993), Santa Barbara, California inventory tag attached
Alfred J. Schell was born in Gerlach, Nevada in 1880. Schell apprenticed with John Estrada (1865-1942) at Goldberg and Staunton from 1910-1913 in Winnemucca, Nevada during the golden age of the buckaroo style. His earliest work is marked "AJ Schell maker, Gerlach, NV". Al moved to Pyramid Lake near Reno in the 1920s and eventually to Oroville, CA where he traveled to large ranches repairing harness and tack, as well as bits and spurs. Schell’s work is comparable with the best of the early ‘California style’ makers, both inlaid and overlaid with light engraving.
Item Dimensions: 4 - 1/2" x 3" x 9".
