Begay Cuff Turquoise Type and Value?

A friend asked me to post this request. The cuff was bought by her husband from a seller that said it was Richard Begay. I think it is Roland Begay from the hallmark. Need help with that and value as well as the turquoise type. Number 8? Any thoughts or guesses appreciated!

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Ok photos are too small. WIll post larger ones shortly.

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I couldn’t find the exact stone I wanted to take a picture of, but what you have there is a Kingman stone.


Kingman, Number Eight and Chinese

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Number Eight, of course Number Eight does have a black matrix too, but it isn’t something you found outside of old pieces.

This is a nice bracelet. It is hard to get a feel of the size of stone, that makes a difference. $350 - $525.

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It’s lovely. I hope she will enjoy wearing it.

Solid looking cuff. I did some quick detective work on the hallmark.

The sigs I added to your photo were from examples I found online attributed to Richard and Roland pieces offered for sale. So far have not spotted anything matching the sig on the cuff.

I have the books as well. But this is what I am basing my hallmark ID on.

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Guessing this is either an early or a later hallmark for Roland H. Begay…leaning towards earlier.

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This is Randy Boyd, he does piece work here in Gallup. https://perrynulltrading.com/randy-boyd-bracelet-turquoise-arrows-sterling-silver-navajo-handmade7

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Thanks very much Jason! I will add this new hallmark to my list!

So this is a contemporary piece then? What would be a fair value for this?

I saw the hallmark for Randy Boyd on the Cuff that you have that matches the hallmark on my piece which is the backward r with b that is connected but there was a piece that is Randy Boyd with his name and a spur. Does he have two hallmarks

The spur is his old hallmark, this one is the newer one.

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Thank you for putting an artist name with this piece.