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That would be my guess…but I will let the experts pipe in. Pretty cuff.
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Thank you! I have worked for an Ebay Native American shop for several years, and now, as the owner is retiring, I’m hoping to launch my own little shop online. This is one of my pieces. Although I have been in the business for a while, I mainly handled the marketing and customer service aspect. So I’m still learning about turquoise from my boss and clients. Thank you!
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You definitely find similarities between Pilot and Royston, but when I see this stone my first though is Pilot Mountain. Amazon.com
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Welcome to the forums @Mel42 : )
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Thank you! I’m excited to be here and hope to learn more and contribute in any way I can. 
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I thought Pilot Mountain also 
Welcome to Turquoise People! You can learn a lot here if you dig in and read!
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Thank you, Jason. It does resemble Pilot Mountain as well. Oh boy.
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Thank you Ziacat. I’ve been looking at Pilot Mountains and some do resemble the colors and matrix style of this cuff. This can be so confusing. 
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I know, right?! That’s why we regularly say that without actual provenance we are making educated guesses.
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@Mel42 Welcome! Nice cuff & absolutely gorgeous turquoise cab. Without knowing the turquoise’s provenance, my thought is Royston. Whatever it is it’s a beauty.
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Your stone reminds me of this one in a ring of mine.
I don’t know for certain the origin of my ring’s turquoise, but I suspect Pilot Mountain. Jason, the admin for the forum, has said on other threads that Pilot Mountain is often a thin cut (the other side of mine is where it really shows how thin it is). I can’t tell how thinly cut your turquoise is. Yours does lean a little more green than mine. Jason is an expert, so I would highly consider his opinion.
One thing I would caution if and when you sell it, is that since you don’t know for sure where it came from, you probably shouldn’t claim a mine for it. Maybe you could say something like it being beautiful American turquoise.
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Oh, I love this ring! Such a beautiful stone.
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Thank you! I need to pull it out, and wear it more. I kind of forgot about it till I saw this post. The stone in the cuff really reminds me of my ring. I bought it in the Eiteljorg gift shop decades ago. I need to look up the artist again, the hallmark is LJ.
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As @Ziacat said, if you are looking to sell this you should not claim a specific mine. Unless you have very solid provenance and the stone appears to be a reasonable match to that provenance, anything anyone tells you is just an educated guess. It’s fun to speculate, but don’t make a claim when selling. I have a lot of turquoise and the vast majority of it I don’t know what mine it’s from. To me this stone does not say Royston, though I suppose it could be since each mine will produce a variety of looks.
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We just refer to it as Nevada turquoise, since both Pilot Mountain and Royston are here. I may send a pic to the Turquoise museum in NM just for fun. They identify the stones for a small fee, unless a certificate is requested. My vendor is here in NV, and he sources from the northwest somewhere. Thank you everyone for all the help. The cut seems nice, not too thin. These bigger pieces seem to have more generous cut. I can see the backing on one side but not on the other. So I know at least one side has a decent depth. 
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