Vintage western wear cowboy four piece “Ranger” belt ensemble; consisting of a marked sterling silver buckle and two belt “keepers” with a planished sterling silver tail; all assembled on a high quality finely grained medium brown leather lizard belt; which will accommodate sizes 34 through 38″ comfortably.
Best known for his Southwestern high quality designs, the belt was handcrafted by world famous silversmith, Paul Scibienski in 1995 who, has been in business for 40 years. Scibienski and his daughter provided luxury hand crafted items such as western cowboy style buckles for Alexander Kalifano; the latter having Scottsdale Arizona jewelry and gemstones handcrafted business roots since 1912. He was able to brand the high end exotic quality goods to luxury markets such as Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom.
The belt ensemble is in excellent and all original condition with very little wear. The belt measures 40″ from the end of the buckle to the first hole of which there are five; each spaced an 1″ apart. The 1 1/4″ belt tapers down to a 1″ billet to facilitate a “planished in place” sterling silver tail piece to move easily through the sterling keeper. The tail, buckle, and “keeper” are in completely all original condition with no restoration of any kind. Please note all the marks engraved on the four silver pieces “Sterling Silver” and “Alexanders Belts & Buckles” “C. 1995″
Buckle = 2″ x 1 7/8″
keeper 1 1/8″ x 1/2″ x 5/8″ deep
tail= 1 1/4”: long
Provenance: From my own personal collection of Western cowboy memorabilia; having been acquired in the early 1990’s.
Note: I am a second generation antiques dealer and have been in business, buying, selling, and collecting, for 50 years; I am also a member of several prestigious antique associations. Thus, I am well qualified to inspect and evaluate the products I offer for sale and I guarantee this to be authentic and as I have described.