Authentic Turquoise Hat Pin | Sterling Silver, Handcrafted in Mexico | Regul Silver

One stone of turquoise, riding where everyone can see it. A hat pin is the finishing mark on a good hat — the small bright signature at the brim — and this one carries its stone high in a halo of stamped sunbursts, the way Western silver has announced itself for a hundred years.

This turquoise hat pin is handcrafted in sterling silver in Mexico: one genuine turquoise stone held in a rope bezel over a stamped sunburst halo, the pin’s shaft twisted down to its clutch. It comes in three lengths — 3, 4.5, and 6 inches — and two silver styles: Classic, with the sunburst worked around the stone, and Artisan, its own hand-worked variation on the same pin.

Most hat pins are stamped out by the tray, thin as foil and finished in a bath. This one is built at a bench: the bezel is rope worked in silver, the halo is stamped ray by ray, and the shaft is twisted by hand — a pin with enough body to sit straight in a band and stay where it is put.

A hat says who a person is before they say a word, and the pin at its brim is the punctuation. Turquoise is the West’s own stone for it — sky color, carried up high, against felt and dust and evening light alike.

Here are its facts, exactly as its record carries them: one hat pin listing, at $144.00 in every variation — three lengths (3, 4.5, and 6 inches) in two styles. The Classic style carries stock numbers TFR62023 (3 in), TFR62024 (4.5 in), and TFR62025 (6 in); the Artisan style carries its own numbers on its variants. Sterling silver; genuine authentic turquoise, one stone on the pin; rope bezel; stamped sunburst halo; handcrafted in Mexico, as its record states three times over. The listing carries the one pin — one stone to a pin, as its record’s own words and photographs show it — in the length and style chosen. Stated exactly, what its record does not carry: no weight or measurement, and no individual maker’s name.

Turquoise care is a strict little ritual: wipe the stone with a soft dry cloth, keep acetone and baking soda away from it entirely, and polish the silver on its own. The honest part: every turquoise stone carries its own color and matrix — the stone in the photographs runs pale blue-green with white matrix — and the pin that arrives will be its own, not a copy of another pin’s stone.

From Fort Worth, the pin ships packed snug for the trip, its shipping figured at checkout. If it reaches you and is not right — the stone, the silverwork, the length — email eas@regulsilver.com within 30 days of delivery and we will take it back and make it right.

Its family stands nearby: the wider Turquoise Jewelry, the Authentic Jewelry, the Statement Pieces, and the Elegant Essentials shelves.

See its stone catch the light at 1455 W Magnolia Ave, Suite 109, Fort Worth — open noon to six, Monday through Saturday — or write to eas@regulsilver.com and we will answer about this very pin.