Mexican and Taxco Vintage Silver Jewelry
CE-2: Mexican vintage devotional art, and Mexican vintage silver jewelry, a beautiful pendant/pin on a silver chain, with a lovely image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, painted on porceline, c. 1940. The silverwork of the pendant/pin and necklace chain is outstanding. Condition is very good. Size: the pendant is 1 1/4 inches high by
1 1/16 inches wide. The silver chain is 20 3/4 inches long. Price: $385.
CE-3: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a stunning cuff-style sterling silver bracelet, Taxco, c. 1950's. The design is very graceful and bold, and the silverwork is excellent. Condition is very good. Size: 6 3/4 inches circumference, with an opening for the wrist of 1 inch. Price: $250.
CE-6: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a beautiful necklace and earrings set of sterling silver, Taxco, c. 1940's. The silverwork is exceptional, and the design of the set is very graceful and elegant! The earrings are clip-on. Condition is very good. Size:
the necklace is 15 inches long by 3/4 inches width. Price: $525 for the set.
CD-5: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a beautiful pair of Taxco silver dangling earrings with wonderful repousee work, Taxco, c. 1940's. The earrings are very elegant and graceful, and the silverwork is excellent. Condition is very good. Size: 2 1/4 inches long by 1 3/4 inches wide, at the widest part. Price: $195.
CC-5: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a wonderful sterling silver necklace with very fine repousee silverwork, Taxco, c. 1940's. The very elegant design and fine silverwork make this necklace very special and beautiful! Condition is very good. Size: 18 inches long; the main pendant is
2 1/2 inches wide by 1 3/4 inches high. Price: $525.
CC-6: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a lovely and very graceful silver bracelet, signed Ballestereos, Taxco, c. 1940. The silverwork is clean and excellent, and the bracelet is very elegant in form. Condition is very good. Size: 7 1/2 inches long by 3/4 inches wide. Price: $425.
BZ-3: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a lovely sterling silver bracelet with a repousee centerpiece, and braided silver bands on either side, Mexico City, c. 1940-50's. The silverwork is excellent, and the design is simple and very elegant. Condition is very good. Size: 7 1/2 inches long, including the clasps, by 3/4 inches wide. Price: $ 395.
BZ-9: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, a graceful and very beautiful sterling silver bracelet, signed on the back with the stamp of Marisela, Taxco, c. 1940's. Condition is very good. Size: 6 3/4 inches long, not including the clasp, by 1 inches wide. Price: $425.
BZ-14: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, a beautiful pair of Taxco silver post earrings in the shape of lovely leaves, Taxco, c. 1940's. The silverwork is excellent, and the earrings are very graceful and elegant. Condition is very good. Size: 2 inches long by 3/4 inch wide. Price: $165.
BY-4: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a beautiful sterling silver repousse bracelet with amethyst, Taxco, c. 1940's. The silverwork is excellent, and the elegant shape of the bracelet is graceful and stunning! Condition is very good. Size: 7 inches long by 2 1/4 inches wide. Price: $475.
BY-5: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a beautiful necklace with alternating sterling silver and amethyst spheres, Taxco, c. 1970. There are 35 sterling silver and 31 amethyst spheres. The overall effect is graceful and stunning. Condition is very good. Size: the necklace is 24 1/2 inches long. The spheres are 1/4 inches in diameter.
SOLD. Thank you!
BY-10: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a beautiful sterling silver bracelet with lovely amethyst half-spheres, Taxco, c. 1940's. The silverwork is excellent, and the bracelet is extremely graceful, bold, and elegant! Condition is very good. Size: 7 1/2 inches long by 1 1/2 inches wide. Price: $325.
BX-3: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a pair of dangling sterling silver earrings with an elegant and very unique design and very fine workmanship, Taxco, c. 1940's. The earrings are very graceful! Condition is very good. Size: 3 inches long by 1 inch wide at the widest part.
SOLD. Thank you!
BX-6: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a pair of dangling silver and dyed-onyx earrings, Taxco, c. 1940's. The design of the earrings is elegant and very graceful, and the silverwork is excellent. Condition is very good. Size: 1 1/2 inches long by 3/4 inches wide at the widest part.
SOLD. Thank you!
BX-7: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a pair of very beautiful Taxco sterling silver repousse dangling earrings, Taxco, c. 1940's. The design is very simple, and yet very elegant and graceful. Condition is very good. Size: 2 inches long by 1 inch at the widest part.
SOLD. Thank you!
BX-8: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a beautiful and very graceful sterling silver bracelet with wonderful amethyst half-spheres, Taxco, c. 1940's. The bracelet has 24 half-spheres of sterling silver and 5 large half-spheres of beautiful amethyst. The overall effect is stunning! Condition is very good. Size: 7 1/2 inches total length by 1 1/16 inches wide at the widest parts. Price: $350.
BX-9: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a beautiful and very graceful sterling silver cuff-style bracelet with wonderful design and very good silverwork, Taxco, c. 1940's. The cuff bracelet is beautifully decorated with 19 sterling silver, small to progressively larger, spheres. It is elegant, highly graceful, and very beautiful! Condition is very good. Size: 2 1/16 inches inner-diameter with the cuff fully closed, by 1 3/4 inches high, at the highest part.
SOLD. Thank you!
BX-10: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a beautiful and very graceful sterling silver necklace with matching earrings, Taxco, c. 1940's. The set is decorated with a wonderful Aztec-style design. The set is extremely elegant, and the silverwork is very fine. Condition of the set is very good. Size: the necklace is 14 1/2 inches long by 1 inch, at the widest panel. Price: $525 for the set.
BX-13: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a lovely pair of dangling earrings with beautiful jet, Taxco, c. 1940's. The silverwork is exceptional. These attach with a rear pin for pierced ears. Condition is very good. Size: 1 1/2 inches long by 1 inch wide at the widest part. Price: $135.
BX-14: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a pair of very beautiful silver earrings with fine repousse and wonderfully formed, Taxco, c. 1940's. The earrings are very elegant and graceful. They attach with a rear pin for pierced ears. Condition is very good. Size: 1 1/2 inches long by 1 inch wide at the widest part.
SOLD. Thank you!
BW-7: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a beautiful sterling silver bracelet with an elegant and wonderful design, stamped on the back with the signature of the famous artist, Hector Aguilar, Taxco, c. 1940's. The design of the bracelet is extremely flowing, and the overall effect is spectacular. Aguilar was an important silversmith in the fabrica of William Spratling before setting up his own shop or Taller. Condition is very good. Size: the bracelet is 8 inches in total length when unclasped, by 3/4 inches high. It measures c. 2 1/4 dimeter when clasped. Price: $675.
BV-8: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a beautiful Taxco silver cuff-style bracelet with excellent silverwork and beautiful design, Taxco, c. 1940.The bracelet features lovely repouse silverwork. It opens wide and clamps to the wrist via an internal spring.
Condition is very good. Size: the cuff opens to 2 3/4 inches variable opening. It closes to 2 1/8 inches wide and is 3 1/2 inches high at the highest part. Price: $475.
BS-7: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a lovely pair of silver and tortoise-shell earrings in the shape of wonderful fish, signed with the logo for William Spratling, Taxco, c. 1940's. The earrings have screw-backs and are all original. The silverwork is excellent. These are truly collector's pieces! Condition is excellent. Size: 1 inch high by 1 inch wide.
SOLD. Thank you!
BR-5: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco sterling silver jewelry, a beautiful necklace, linked with lovely silver spheres, and of sterling silver with beautiful pale-blue turquoise, Taxco, c. 1940's. The silverwork is excellent and is marked 925, and the turquoise has a blue color, almost like the clear water of a glacier, with a pale and lovely matrix. It is extremely graceful and elegant, and it lays beautifully around the neck. Condition is very good. Size: 20 inches total length. The silver medallion at the base of the necklace is 1 3/4 inches high by 1 1/4 inches wide. The silver and turquoise pendants along the sides are 1 1/4 inches high by 1 1/4 inches wide.
SOLD. Thank you!
BP-10: Vintage sterling silver jewelry, a lovely and very graceful sterling silver necklace with a wonderful design and very good silver-work, c. 1960's. The necklace has been tested and is of sterling; the origin of the necklace is probably not Mexico, but more likely from the United States. This is a beautiful and very elegant piece of vintage silver jewelry. Condition is very good. Size: 17 inches long by 1 1/2 inches wide at the pendant.
SOLD. Thank you!
BO-5: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a beautiful sterling silver necklace and matching earrings set, with wonderful amethyst stones, Taxco, c. 1940's. The necklace and earrings are simply magnificent. The necklace is signed "Vestor" and bears the eagle stamp #3. The silver-work is excellent. This is a very elegant and graceful set of Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry! Condition is very good. Size: the necklace is 14 1/2 inches total length, and the links are 1/4 inches wide. The silver and amethyst shell at the base of the necklace is 1 1/2 inches high by 1 3/4 inches wide. The earrings are 1 inch wide by 1 1/16 inches long.
SOLD. Thank you!
BN-9: Mexican vintage jewelry, a beautiful pair of gold and coral earrings in a traditional colonial style, c. 1900. The earrings are 14K gold and have incredible detail, with mini-spheres and braiding. The coral is stunning, and the color compliments that of the gold. These are treasures! Condition is excellent. Size: each measures 2 1/16 inches long by 1/2 inch wide. Price: $725.
BM-3: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a lovely sterling silver bracelet from Taxco, signed on the back with the mark of Los Castillo, Taxco, c. 1950. The bracelet is stunningly elegant and graceful, and the silverwork is excellent, as can be expected of a piece by Los Castillo. Condition is excellent. Size: 2 1/2 inches wide by c. 5/8 inches high. The opening for the wrist is c. 1 inch.
SOLD. Thank you!
BL-6: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, a beautiful and very graceful pair of sterling silver jewelry earrings, signed on the back of one earring, Distrito Federal (Mexico City), c. 1940's. The silverwork is excellent, and the earrings are very elegant. Each earring has a lovely amethyst stone/nugget. The stamp on the back side of one earring, AE inside of a heart-shaped M, indicates that the earrings are the work of Rancho Alegre gallery, and they are very probably by Estela Popowski, who designed jewelry for Los Castillo and Antonio Pineda.
Condition of the earrings is excellent. Size: 1 1/2 inches long by 3/4 inches wide. The amethyst stones are 1/2 inches long by 3/4 inches wide. Price: $165.
BL-7: Mexican vintage sterling silver earrings, and Taxco silver jewelry earrings, a lovely pair of silver earrings for pierced ears, with wonderful repousee silverwork, unmarked, from Taxco, c. 1940's. The earrings are extremely graceful and elegant. Condition is excellent. Size: 1 3/4 inches long by 3/4 inches wide. Price: $145.
BK-5: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco silver jewelry, a lovely sterling silver pictorial bracelet, Taxco, c. 1940's. The bracelet is composed of finely worked silver panels, with charming images of rural Mexico. Condition is very good. Size: 7 3/4 inches long by 1 inch wide.
SOLD. Thank you!
BK-6: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a wonderful pair of dangling sterling silver earrings, Taxco, c. 1940's. The earrings have a lovely spherical shape, and incorporate cosmic designs of stars and crescent moons. The repousee work is excellent. Condition is very good. Size: 1 3/4 inches long by 1/2 inches wide. Price: $165.
BH-10: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco silver jewelry, a lovely necklace and bracelet set of sterling silver with cabochons of jade, Taxco, c. 1950's. The set is extremely graceful and elegant! The silverwork is excellent. Condition is very good. Size: the necklace is 16 inches long by 3/4 inches wide; the bracelet is 8 inches long by 3/4 inches wide. Price: $325 for the set.
BG-10: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, an exquisite silver necklace with 32 cabochons of wonderful amethyst, Taxco, c. 1940's. The design and the silverwork are exceptional, and the necklace is extremely beautiful and elegant! Condition is excellent. Size: 15 inches in total length by c. 3/4 inches wide.
SOLD. Thank you!
BD-9: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco sterling silver jewelry, a lovely silver broach in the shape of a spider, with a very fine turquoise stone, Taxco, c. 1940's. The piece is signed on the back side, and the condition is very good. Size: 2 inches long by 2 inches wide by 1 inch high. Price: $165.
BD-11: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, a lovely pair of sterling silver pierced earrings, circular and with beautiful thunderbirds in the center of sunbursts, Taxco, c. 1940-50's. The silverwork is excellent, and the silver earrings feature lovely turquoise inlays. They are stamped on the back, 925 (fine sterling silver). The overall effect is striking and very beautiful! Condition is excellent. Size: 1 1/4 inches diameter. Price: $155.
AZ-6: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, a beautiful pair of silver earrings with almost a floral or musical form and design, Taxco, c. 1940's. The dangling Taxco silver earrings are very elegant and graceful. One earring is stamped or signed on the back side, "Sterling, Mexico". Condition is excellent. Size: 2 1/4 inches long by 1 inch wide, at the widest part. Price: $130.
AY-2: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a beautiful pair of dangling earrings decorated with coral inlays, signed Matl (Matilde Eugenia Poulat, b. ?-d. 1960), Taxco, c. 1930-40's. The design of these earrings is simply stunning and very elegant. Poulat studied at the San Carlos Academy of Art, along with fellow-student, Diego Rivera. A painter and designer first, she opened her shop for jewelry in Taxco in 1934 and soon became famous for the beautiful design and quality of her silverwork. Condition of the earrings is excellent. Size: 2 inches long by 1 1/4 inches at the widest part.
SOLD. Thank you!
AY-6: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a beautiful silver bracelet with very strong and clean design, and featuring 5 bump-outs, Taxco, c. 1940's. The silver-work is masterful, and the overall effect of the design of the bracelet is powerful and very elegant! The piece is signed on the inside. Condition is excellent. Size: 2 1/2 inches diameter, when clasped, by 1 1/2 inches high, at the widest point, and narrowing to c. 1/2 inch high at the back. Price: $325.
AX-3: Mexican vintage silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, a wonderful and very graceful pair of Taxco silver dangling earrings, Taxco, c. 1940's. The workmanship is excellent, featuring very nice repousee or "bump-out", and the earrings are exceptionally graceful and elegant. Condition is excellent. Size: 1 1/2 inches long by 1 1/2 inches wide, at the widest part. Price:$165.
AV-5: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, a beautiful sterling silver set (necklace, bracelet, and earrings), from Taxco, a silver and jewelry center of Mexico, c. 1940's. The jewelry set shows very fine repousse silverwork, and the matching pieces are very graceful and elegant. Condition is excellent. Size: the lovely necklace measures 16 inches long by 1 inch wide. The bracelet: 7 1/2 inches long by 1 1/2 inches wide. The earrings: 1 1/2 inches wide by 3/4 inches high.
SOLD. Thank you!
AU-6: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a stunning silver bracelet with beautiful amethyst cabochons, Taxco, c. 1930's. The silverwork is exceptional, featuring beautiful repousse work. Condition is excellent. This is a very graceful and elegant piece of vintage Taxco jewelry, and a true collector's piece. Size: 7 3/4 inches long by 1 inch wide. Price: $275.
AQ-6: Mexican vintage silver jewelry, and Taxco sterling silver jewelry, a very beautiful silver necklace with stones of black jet, Taxco, c. 1940's. This is an elegant and very graceful piece of Taxco vintage silver jewelry, and the silver-work is of exceptional quality. The piece is stamped/signed on the clasp. Condition is excellent. Size: 14 1/2 inches total length by 3/4 inches wide. Price: $215.
AP-11: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a beautiful bracelet and earrings set, with lovely amethyst stones set in silver, Taxco, c. 1930's. The amethyst is shaped into lovely "droplets" with silver spheres framing each individual "droplet". The effect is stunning. Condition of both earrings and bracelet is excellent. Pieces are signed on the back. Size: the bracelet is 8 inches long by 3/4 inches wide. The earrings are 1 1/2 inches long by 3/4 inches wide. Price: $475 for the set.
AK-12: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a very beautiful sterling silver bracelet with cabochons and magenta-colored stones (four of each), signed "Mexico", c. 1940's. The bracelet is very likely from Taxco; the silverwork is exquisite and the overall design is exceptionally elegant! Condition is very good. Size: 7 inches total length, excluding the clasp (please, see photo in Gallery). Price: $395.
AK-13: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a beautiful pair of dangling silver earrings with amethyst and turquoise stones, Taxco, c. 1950-60's. The earrings are in the style of Matl, but are probably by her nephew, Ricardo Salas. The earrings are not signed. They are wonderfully graceful and elegant! Condition is very good.
SOLD. Thank you!
AJ-8: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a silver necklace with a star/sun burst pendant and a hand-made silver chain, Taxco, c. 1950's. The pendant is beautifully inlaid with pieces of turquoise. The effect is stunning. The piece is signed on the back of the pendant with the artist's stamp. Condition is excellent. Size: the chain measures 22 inches in total length.
SOLD. Thank you!
AI-9: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a lovely silver bracelet with excellent repousse work (or bump out's), Taxco, c. 1940's. The silverwork is extremely detailed and fine; the effect is very graceful and elegant. Condition is excellent. Size: 6 3/4 inches long by 3/4 inches wide. Price: $325.
AI-17: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a beautiful and very elegant sterling silver belt, which can also be used as a graceful necklace, Taxco, c. 1940's. The silver piece is signed with the artist's stamps on the back side. The silver-work is especially excellent; this piece was made by a master artist! Condition is very good. Size: 28 inches total length by 1 inch wide. Price: $875.
AF-4: Mexican vintage silver, and Taxco vintage sterling silver, a lovely salt and pepper set, with excellent silver-artistry, Taxco, c. 1950's. The set has a wonderful and very graceful form, and the decorations on the silver are excellent. Condition is very good. Size: each measures approximately 2 3/4 inches high by 3/4 inches diameter. Price: $285 for the set.
AD-12: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a very beautiful pair of Taxco silver earrings, c. 1930's. The silver-work is excellent, and the design of these earrings is very graceful. There is no maker's mark, but they are in the style of Hector Aguilar (Perhaps a silversmith from his shop?). Condition is very good. Size: 2 3/4 inches long by 3/4 inches wide.
SOLD. Thank you!
WW-3: Mexican vintage gold jewelry, and Mexican antique devotional art, a truly stunning filagree gold cross on a finely woven gold chain, Mexico, early to mid-19th century. The filagree work on this gold cross is incredibly fine, and the woven gold chain is spectacular. The cross and chain are museum-quality. The chain and the ends of the cross are 14 karat, and the filagree parts of the cross are very likely 18 karat, which would be typical of Mexican gold filagree from this period. The filagree body of the cross is simply too fine to test effectively. Condition is excellent. Size: 18 1/2 inches long (with chain open and extended, including the gold clasp). The filagree cross is 2 1/2 inches high by 2 inches wide at the arms. Price: $2400.
TT-16: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and vintage Taxco silver jewelry, a stunningly beautiful cuff bracelet, Taxco, c. 1930's. The form and decoration of the bracelet are extremely elegant and graceful. This is a great piece of vintage Taxco silver jewelry. Condition is excellent. Size: 2 1/2 inches high by 2 5/8 inches wide (across the opening for the wrist). Price: $425.
QQ-9: Mexican and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, a pair of hair combs with tops of silver and with copper bump-out's (mixed-metals), Taxco, c. 1930-40's. The hair combs are very elegant and beautiful. Condition is excellent. Size: 3 1/2 inches wide by 1 3/4 inches high. Price: $150 for the pair.
QQ-10: Mexican and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, a wonderful pair of silver earrings, Taxco, c. 1930-40's. The earrings have a very elegant and graceful design, with bump-out's and fine filagree. The pin-attachments on the backs of the earrings are for pierced ears. Condition is excellent. Size: 1 1/16 inches diameter. Price: $165.
NN-5: Mexican vintage and Taxco sterling silver jewelry, a lovely sterling silver necklace with jet-black stones (jet or black onyx) set into silver, Taxco, c. 1950. This is a highly elegant piece of vintage Taxco silver jewelry. It is extremely well-made and lies gracefully and comfortably around the neck. Condition is excellent. Size: c. 22 inches total length when unclasped. Price: $195.
II-8: Mexican and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a beautiful ring with inlaid pieces of turquoise, marked Los Castillo, one of the most famous silver shops of Taxco, c. 1940-50. The ring has two bands of different shades of turquoise. It is extremely beautiful. Condition is excellent. Size: 1/4 inches high by 3/4 inches (front to back of band) by 5/8 inches diameter across the opening for the finger. Price: $195.
H-10: Mexican vintage silver jewelry, a Taxco sterling silver pin depicting a wilely fox, with two turquoise eyes, c. 1940's. Size: 3 1/2" wide x 2" high. Price: $300.
B-11: Mexican vintage Taxco silver jewelry: bracelet and earring set, in the style of Margo de Taxco, c. 1950's. Size: Earrings, 2 1/2" high x 1" wide. Bracelet, 9" long x 1" wide at serpeant's head x 3" diameter when closed. Blue enamling on sterling, probably from the workshop of Margo de Taxco via one of her silversmiths, but set does not bear Margot's own signature. Beautifully done, obviously the work of a master silversmith! Post earrings for pierced ears. Marked: "925 Mexico TF-25." Price for set: $650.
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