I bought four new rings this morning and I am curious about the stones. Correct me if I am wrong. I think the green triangle is gaspeite. It is marked G.Boyd. The long rectangular one is turquoise. The sideways triangle shape is turquoise. And the long oval I don’t have a clue. Maybe jasper? It is marked C. Draper.
Thanks for any and all comments!
Hi Chris! Good to see you on here again. Awesome rings! I would have also guessed gaspeite on the green one. That bottom right one is a killer. What a gorgeous stone, and I love the long shape. But what am I saying, they’re all beautiful 
I’m not really sure what that top left one is.
@chris Hi ~ you’ve got some nice looking rings there. The long, oval stone may be a variscite. The triangle one looks a bit too bright green for gaspeite but, I could be wrong about that. Your 2 bottom rings look like turquoise, imo.
Great looking pieces. For fun starting top left and going clockwise, Damele, Gaspeite, Nevada Blue/Turquoise Mountain?, Variscite.
Thanks! Loved that long rectangle too. It’s marked S. I don’t buy much turquoise anymore. It’s getting way too pricey for me. But I got lucky with these this morning.
Ahhh! Damele! Never heard of that! I will definitely look it up!
Well you did great with these. I think they’re all GORGEOUS, and they look great on you. Enjoy!
I found this regarding C. Draper online. There were also some other pieces out there that looked similar to your ring. The single S would be harder to find.
Fantastic! I was having a hard time finding him! But that is definitely his style!
Yes those single initials are hard. I also bought these fabulously large earrings at the same sale. I will have to look up all the M sterling until I match the style.
I love those. I really wish I could wear heavier earrings, but my right lobe won’t take it anymore.
I have zero useful information for you, only here to say what gorgeous rings!!
Charlton Draper’s style is unmistakable. I really like the stones he chooses and have 3 pendants by him. It’s hard to find any information on him, though. Barton Wright says he was “producing in 1986”.
Thanks! I am happy to know an approximate time frame for my ring. I love his silver work and weight of the ring as well as the stone.
Yes it is hard to find info about him. I did read in the course of my research that some people also use “Charleston” Draper and that helped some. I came across a nice pair of Dry Creek earrings in the safe that I had forgotten about and was trying to get comps.
I’d seen this artist misnamed as “Charleston” before but I’m guessing that people were getting him confused with a Utah restaurant called The Charleston Draper. Either that or they thought his name contained a typo 
But yes, you can find listings for his work under that version of his name. In any case I’ve only ever seen him sign his pieces as “C. DRAPER” so that part is consistent.
Yes, I just saw that when I was researching the earrings. And then I read it in a little article somewhere that people were using both names despite the fact that the hallmark is C. Draper.
When an artist is proving hard to find, sometimes I hop onto Ancestry and see if I can find any traces of them. In this case I found some ambiguous records for one or more Draper men named Charlton OR Charleston, Jr. OR Sr. (both with the same birth date, mind). If it’s the person I think it might be, his middle initial is “Y” (for Yazzie maybe?) and he is deceased. But there’s also a younger candidate with a more recent birth date who is probably still alive … eh. It can be challenging to figure these things out, especially when it looks like some records may refer to the same person but some details don’t line up.
Bille Hougart (4th edn.) gives his mark, says the name is Charlton Draper (Navajo) but says nothing else about him. Some sellers say his works are vintage, e.g. 1980s, but I’ve also seen some that looked very new, so I honestly don’t know.
Still a mystery, and we may never know. But the hallmark is consistent.
Wow. I am impressed with your detective work. I would have never even thought to look on a ancestry website. Well done! It gives you some ideas even if it results in no definitive answers.
Good work. I also wouldn’t have thought of ancestry as a resource. But that may be because of my family’s penchant for naming everyone the same name generation after generation. The high school paper I did was difficult to say the least. Every name had to have dates next to it to keep track of which generation they were in. (Seems quite common here in the south-My dad, brother and nephew all have the same name from my great uncle) I managed to get a good grade but I think my brain was forever scrambled! 
However, I do like the Draper earrings regardless of the lack of info. Thanks for helping.
