Cody Custer — Navajo/Diné Silversmith
Cody Custer (1988–2019) was a Navajo silversmith active from approximately the 2010s. His work, as documented in Hougart, focused on cast work and set stones. He was the son of Gary Custer, a prominent and multiple-award-winning Navajo silversmith, placing him within the Custer family silversmithing tradition.
The Custer family is well represented in our Navajo silversmithing reference books: Ira Custer (born 1964) — who works in tufa casting and traditional hand-wrought silver and gold — is the brother of Gary Custer and the uncle of Cody.
The Mark
""CT C" — Hougart, Bille. Native American and Southwestern Silver Hallmarks, 5th ed. (2022)."
— Hougart, Bille. Native American and Southwestern Silver Hallmarks, 5th ed. (2022).
— Hougart, Bille. Native American and Southwestern Silver Hallmarks, 5th ed. (2022).
The mark recorded for Cody Custer is CT C. His father Gary S. Custer's marks, documented in the same entry, are G. S. C. and Gary S. Custer (both etched script).
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- Hougart, Bille. Native American and Southwestern Silver Hallmarks, 5th ed. Washington, DC: BilleHougartBooks, 2022.
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