@Steve
I drive by this place often. I don’t know if they are open to the public. Maybe they only sell to dealers.
So…do y’all think this stone is Chinese or…?
Even though it was from a sweet little store in Buffalo, WY that had a nice collection of Native American jewelry ( I wanted to buy a Tommy Singer cuff but it didn’t fit), the owner was not in, and the young clerk didn’t really know anything, I bought it anyway, because it fit well, and I liked the look.
BTW if any of you are ever out that way, Buffalo, WY is a wonderful little western town.
@Ziacat A very nice ring! Just doesn’t look quite like Chinese turquoise to me. Hard to explain. Chinese turquoise that I’ve seen has more uniform(?) areas of color & black webbing. The grayish webbing in this cab is throwing me off. Hope others will chime in on this.
That’s kind of what I thought about it. It may be a puzzle forever.
In “Turquoise in America pt 2” Mike Ryan does a video about Chinese turquoise entering the US market in the late 80’s. The cuff in my post above included a cuff from the 80’s with Cloud Mountain turquoise.
Currently there is a Chinese girl who sells from the mines and a number of the artists buy from her. She was kind enough to identify the turquoise mines in my pieces for me.
You can also find Mike Ryan’s videos on YouTube.
Thank you so much, @Islandmomma , I will look up the videos this evening! Much appreciated!
It appears in picture 2 lower right corner of ring there is a stamp of some kind. Blow up the picture
It’s actually been here longer than that. I’ve mentioned this before on the forum. Mike Carter, who used to cut for my brother, went over to China in the early 80s, and opened a cutting shop. Last time I saw him was in Albuquerque probably about 1984. Mike was already producing at that time, and Chinese turquoise was just hitting the market.
Thank you for sharing this, @mmrogers. I really appreciate the firming up of baselines like this as it makes dating a wee bit more certain. And 1984 is an easy year to remember, thanks to Orwell 
I would really love to have a timeline around brooches. When did SW Native silversmiths first begin making brooches (pins); when did the shift to the more versatile pin-pendant style happen, and when did brooches-without-a-pendant-attachment become thoroughly unfashionable and, for the most part, stop being made? I know this is probably unanswerable, but it would be fantastic to know!
Mike Carter died recently…
So sorry to learn that. He was a genuinely good human being, and a really fine craftsman. May God bless and keep him.