Chimney Butte Pendant, Kingman Turquoise Teardrop, Navajo Sterling Silver
A Navajo pendant by Chimney Butte with a single bright Kingman turquoise teardrop set in a deeply stamped silver frame.
Specifications
- Metal: Sterling silver
- Artist: Chimney Butte (Navajo)
- Made: 2026
- Stone: Kingman turquoise, cabochon
- Length with bail: 2.9 inches (7.4 cm)
- Pendant drop: 2.2 inches (5.6 cm)
- Width at the widest point: 1.5 inches (3.8 cm)
- Weight: 40 grams
- Bail opening: 15 mm
Hallmarks
- Chimney Butte, script maker's stamp
- Sterling
Both marks are struck on the back. The Chimney Butte stamp is the maker's mark; Sterling is the silver standard.
About the Piece
The stone is the clean, saturated sky blue that made Kingman famous, with only a faint darker vein running through it. Set in a plain high bezel with no beading, so nothing interrupts the colour.
Around it the silver does all the work: four concentric rings of stamping, each a different pattern, stepping outward and downward to a scalloped edge. The recesses are oxidised almost black, which throws the raised surfaces forward.
The smallest of the stamped pendants in this group at 40 grams, and the easiest to wear daily.
Kingman is one of the oldest and best known Arizona mines, still producing, known for clean bright blue with dark matrix.
Chimney Butte is a Navajo (Dine) silversmith working out of New Mexico in a deliberately old style idiom: heavy gauge sterling, deep hand stamping, repousse, sandcast work, and good named mine turquoise. The mark is one of the most recognisable in contemporary Southwestern silver, which is part of why the work holds its value. Every piece is stamped Chimney Butte and Sterling on the back.
Styling
It hangs from a wide stamped bail that takes a heavy chain, so it will sit on Navajo pearls, a thick box chain, or a leather cord without looking under hung. Worn alone it does all the work; it does not need layering.
Condition
Excellent. Newly made and unworn, with the deep oxidised finish the maker applies to the stamped recesses.
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