Ric Charlie — Navajo/Diné Silversmith
Hallmark documented in: Hougart, Schaaf (1200 Bios). Rendered from the documented mark, not a photograph.
Ric Charlie is a Navajo silversmith born in 1959, active since the 1970s. The Hougart record documents his work in tufa casting, multiple stone sets, silver, gold, and multi-colored surfaces. He also works in channel inlay and collaborates with Darryl Dean Begay. He is a multiple award winner and received the 2007 Santa Fe Indian Market Best-of-Jewelry award.
The corpus notes that a student of Ric Charlie — identified with initials TR C (part of cast) — is documented separately in Hougart, indicating his influence as a teacher within the tufa-casting tradition.
The Mark
"C (early mark); RC (conjoined, usually part of the casting, since 1974); R Charlie"
— Hougart, Bille. Native American and Southwestern Silver Hallmarks, 5th ed. (2022).
— Hougart, Bille. Native American and Southwestern Silver Hallmarks, 5th ed. (2022).
Three mark variants are recorded across his career: an early single-letter C mark, the conjoined RC (typically cast directly into the piece since 1974), and the full name form R Charlie.
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- Hougart, Bille. Native American and Southwestern Silver Hallmarks, 5th ed. Schiffer Publishing, 2022.
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