Tom Kee
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Overview
Tom Kee is a Navajo silversmith whose documented work runs to storyteller bracelets and carved novelties. He shares his stamp with his wife, Sue Kee, who is documented in her own entry with the same shared-stamp arrangement.
Collector's caution: Tom Kee and Sue Kee share one stamp — a piece carrying it cannot be attributed to husband or wife on the stamp alone. Worse, the stamp itself is garbled in the scan of Hougart's entry (it prints as "i SK"; a stray "(a hogan)" fragment nearby may suggest a hogan element, but that is a guess, not a documented reading). Until the mark is verified against a physical copy, treat any attribution to this stamp as tentative.
The Mark
"Tom Kee /Navajo). Storyteller race e ' b I ts· [garbled in scan; reads as 'bracelets'] carved novelties. He shares the stamp with his wife Sue K ee. Mark: i SK . a ho an); some (1~ [mark garbled in scan — not readable as printed]"
— Hougart, Bille. Native American and Southwestern Silver Hallmarks, 5th ed. (2022), entry at approx. scan line 18077.
The marks as documented in the Hougart corpus: a stamp shared with wife Sue Kee — OCR-garbled in the scan (prints "i SK"); verify at physical source.
References - Hougart, Bille. *Native American and Southwestern Silver Hallmarks*, 5th ed. Schiffer Publishing, 2022. Entry at approx. scan line 18077.
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