Hi, friends!
I bought this ring thinking it was turquoise, but the more I look at it, the more I wonder. Could it be azurite?
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I like it. Don’t think the stone is turquoise, perhaps something like Sonoran Sunrise / Sonoran Sunset?
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oooh. Sonoran Sunrise/Sunset? I am looking it up.
I like it, too. 
Yes it’s a type of chrysocolla, often mixed with Cuprite (for the red hues).
Not sure that yours is SS, though, but it made me think of it
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That is what I thought too!
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Any idea about the Hallmark? I need to that wonderful book by Bille Hougart.
Looking at the design, materials and construction, it’s very unlikely the ring is Native, or has provenance found in books with hallmarks of Native silversmiths. Items in quality and price range, even when Native made, and stamped with one, two, or even three initials are rarely truly attributable to an individual with a body of work sufficient to attribute origin to one silversmith or another. In this case, the off the shelf letter stamp looks to be additionally embellished with an off the shelf arrow stamp. Anyone could have made this ring. Most of our experienced members are well aware of this. Although it’s fun to guess about it, the odds of discovering verifiable provenance for an item like this are close to zero.
ETA: Google image search is a free resource you can use. This is what an image search for this hallmark returned for me.
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I kinda figured @Steve, our forum image wizard would be able to find something. A great example of how false provenance is oftentimes worse than no provenance at all, especially if you want to resell a piece from your collection at some point.
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a couple of variants are found online
but none with the arrow
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Once again, thank you for the good info. I will try the Google image search. I thought it may be a shopmark from a company, not so much an individual.
Very unlikely a shop mark. Chances of a professional shop producing something like this are slim and none. This is very likely the work of non-Native imitating a native style.
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