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RARE 1942 MEXICAN LOS BALLESTEROS SILVER BROOCH PIN browse these categories for related items... Directory: Estate Jewelry: Silver: Mexican: Pre 1950: item # 1125453 Please refer to our stock # RL444 when inquiring.
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From the renowned Taxco Talleres de Los Ballesteros ...
Leave it to Los Ballesteros to not only produce a brooch with elegant and classically wrought silver making, but also to imbue it with wonder, enchantment, and poignancy. Depicting a bucolic motif replete with iconic Mexican imagery—a burro, water jug, demure farm woman, and lush agave cactus, almost looking like the tree of life—the pin is a small masterpiece of hand-rendered repoussé, remarkably detailed chasing, delicate silver roping, and meticulous cutwork. A traditional design brought vibrantly alive in lustrous silverwork, this is a jewelry piece of alluring dimension and character. HALLMARKS: BALLESTEROS, STERLING, HAND MADE, TAXCO. This rare, early hallmark—fully documented in Bille Hougart's The Little Book of Mexican Silver Trade and Hallmarks—dates the piece to c.1942. DIMENSIONS: 2-1/2" x 1-1/4". WEIGHT: 8.9 grams. CONDITION: Excellent to superior vintage condition, with no issues evident. The pin is fitted with an early, but secure rollover-locking clasp. |
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