Great topic! Mine is this Edison Cummings bracelet with Bisbee turquoise. Like yours, it’s simply tufa cast with turquoise – two of my favorite things.
Thank you! That bezel is mind blowing, it looks like it was tufa cast too (but the seller said it wasn’t) so I guess Edison somehow fabricated it to integrate perfectly with the tufa cast. Brilliant.
Hi! I have been wearing this piece everyday since I received it. I really like the weight and the mixture of styles. So far it’s sturdy enough to stand up to my beating, thank goodness
They are both Navajo, the bottom one I would say 1970s. The top one is very similar to a style that Andy Cadman makes today. Bot ave great looking rocks.
So once again I am joining an old post late. But it’s a great thread; I love everything you all have posted. I have a hard time with a “go to” piece, because I regularly wear so much of what I own. But I tried to narrow it down…
I love this cuff, and couldn’t wear it for awhile till I got it fixed last summer. I bought the ring at the store where I got the cuff fixed, and wear it a LOT.
Thank you! I don’t have a lot of info on it. I bought it at Ogg’s maybe 10 years ago. Jeff said it was older, maybe 50’s. He also said it looked Navajo, but he felt it might be Zuni. I posted on it here last fall. Here’s the link.Unusual cuff
It is not. It’s by Britwest, a great jewelry company, created and owned by a (non native) gal named Brittain Roberts. She makes a lot of cuffs with old found leather. This cuff is made with an old driving reign and carved stabilized Kingman turquoise. I have quite a few of her cuffs, because I love the combo. She does have some one of a kind and made to order pieces, but what I have is off her website. I usually don’t order jewelry online, but I met her and saw her stuff at an art fair in UT years ago, so I know what to expect. Thanks!!
She’s got some fun stuff, and her website is just pretty cool. And she also works with quite a lot of Navajo artists. I have another of her cuffs that’s a big natural Kingman stone set in a cross, which is my favorite. The heart one was my Christmas present. She had a fun video where she went to Kings Saddlery in Sheridan and they were giving her a bunch of their old leather. I’m a horse person so I was drawn to that.
Thanks! I wouldn’t worry about hurting old leather. The leather she uses has already been through the ringer and she just worked hard to soften it back up. I just clean it once in a while with some leather conditioner. And of course I’m careful with the stones.
Although the vast majority of my turquoise pieces are Native American made, my go-to piece is a ring made by Geoff Cook who used to have a kiosk at the Copper Queen Hotel in Bisbee. Its not my most expensive, not my largest, not even my prettiest or favorite piece, but it is the first one I reach for on a daily basis.
Geoff spent a lot of time educating me on Bisbee turquoise and when nothing in his case “spoke to me”, he brought this one ring from home and I knew IT was the one.
Last year after learning of his passing, I reached out to his son Geoff Cook Jr. and purchased a few more rings in this unique style, but none have that same feeling I get from this one.