Broken Mesa
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description: This one looks like somebody took a slab of Royston, broke the landscape into five pieces, and put silver through the fault lines. It’s such a strange little vintage ring. Long, narrow, almost shield-shaped—and instead of treating the turquoise like a conventional cabochon, the maker used channel construction to turn the entire face into a geometric composition. Different areas of the stone move from deep blue-green into brighter green, with brown and black matrix appearing and disappearing across the individual sections. The silver lines aren’t decoration. They are the design. Why This Piece Matters Most vintage turquoise rings rely on a stone surrounded by silverwork. This reverses the relationship: nearly the entire visible face is turquoise, while narrow silver channels divide the stone into an abstract mosaic. That makes it feel surprisingly modern for a vintage Southwestern piece. Royston is particularly suited to this kind of work because its color and matrix can vary dramatically within a single piece of rough. Here, those differences become part of the composition rather than something the maker tried to hide. Comparable vintage turquoise channel-inlay rings currently appear around roughly $145–$180, while more distinctive or attributed Royston examples can move higher. Artifact Registry Artifact Name: Broken Mesa Maker: Unsigned Origin: Native American / American Southwest Materials: Silver, Royston turquoise Construction: Five-section turquoise channel inlay Ring Size: 7 Era: Vintage, likely later 20th century Collector’s Gallery Value: $300–$400 Curator’s Field Observation The coolest thing here is that the five turquoise sections don’t try to match. One carries webbing. Another is nearly uninterrupted green. Another has that rusty brown Royston matrix pushing through the edge. Put together, it almost looks like an aerial map of five pieces of Nevada divided by roads. And from the side you can see the substantial split-shank architecture doing the struct…
brand: Hespera Jewelry Co.
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