Mexican and Taxco Vintage Silver Jewelry
EJ-5: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, a wonderful Taxco solid silver bracelet with a beautiful modern or floral design, Taxco, c. 1940's. The design is very bold and elegant. Condition is very good. Size: the bracelet measures 6 3/4 inches total length, clasp to clasp, by 3 /4 inches high. Price: $225.
EJ-8: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, a pair of sterling silver earrings decorated with leaf designs and with silver rosettes near the bottom, Taxco, c. 1940's. The earrings are very graceful and elegant! Condition is very good. Size: 1 3/4 inches long by 1 inch at the widest part. Price: $175.
EI-4: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, a beautiful pair of dangling silver earrings with lovely turquoise, Taxco, c. 1940's. The earrings are incredibly graceful and elegant! Condition is very good. Size: 2 inches long by 1 1/2 inches at the largest diameter. Price: $299.
EI-5: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, a beautiful sterling silver necklace with a design resembling scallops on each side, Taxco, c. 1940's. The necklace is stamped 950 indicating a very high silver content. They are very graceful and elegant.
Condition is very good. Size: the necklace is 16 inches total length. Price: $375.
EG-1: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, a beautiful sterling silver bracelet with floral pendants and cabochons of amethyst, Taxco, c. 1940. The silverwork is exceptional, and the bracelet is graceful and elegant. Condition is very good. Size: the bracelet is 7 1/2 inches total length. Each pendant is 1 1/2 inches high by 1 1/2 inches wide. Price: $375.
EG-6: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, a lovely Taxco repousse necklace with three strands of wonderful silver spheres, Taxco, c. 1940's. The necklace is very graceful and elegant! Condition is very good. Size: 15 1/4 inches total length. Price: $185.
EE-4: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, a beautiful pair of sterling silver and ebony earrings in the shape of graceful fish, for pierced ears, Taxco, c. 1940's. This is a William Spratling design, and his mark may have been lost when the earrings were converted for pierced ears. The silverwork is exceptional; the earrings are highly collectible! Condition is very good. Size: 1 1/16 inches high by 1 inch, at the widest part.
SOLD. Thank you!
EE-5: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, a belt with large silver crosses on a suede leather belt, made famous when worn by the artist Georgia O'Keefe, Taxco, c. 1940's. The design came to be known as "the Georgia O'Keefe belt." It was originally designed by Hector Aguilar. Condition is fair: there is some wear on the suede back, and a few suede straps are missing or loose.
Buy it that way. Size: the belt is 30 inches long by 2 1/2 inches high. The sterling silver buckle, with a cabochon of amethyst, is 1 1/2 inches long by 2 1/16 inches high. Price: $1999.
EC-4: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, a beautiful repousse sterling silver necklace and earrings set, Taxco, c. 1940's. The silverwork is exceptional, and the set is very elegant and graceful! Condition is very good. Size: The necklace is 15 1/2 inches long, and the main scallops are each 6 1/2 inches long by 2 inches wide. The earrings: 1 1/16 inches long by 3 /4 inches wide. Price: $575 for the set.
EB-9: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, a stunningly beautiful Taxco repousse clamp-style bracelet with excellent silverwork, Taxco, c. 1940's. The bracelet is exceptionally graceful and elegant. Condition is very good. Size: 2 1/2 inches wide by 3 1/2 inches high, at the highest part. Price: $375.
EA-7: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, a lovely necklace of silver and copper ("married metals"), Taxco, c. 1940's. The silverwork is excellent, and the necklace is very graceful and elegant. Condition is very good. Size: 16 inches in total length by 3/4 inches wide, at the widest part. Price: $325.
DZ-4: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a beautiful Taxco sterling silver necklace with matching earrings, Taxco, c. 1980's. The silverwork is exceptional, and the necklace and earrings are elegant and very graceful. Condition is very good. Size: the necklace is 19 inches total length by 1 inch wide. The earrings are 1 inch long by 1/4 inch at the widest part.
SOLD. Thank you!
DZ-5: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a lovely Taxco silver bracelet with wonderful stamping and a beautiful turquoise stone, Taxco, c. 1940's. The silverwork is truly beautiful! Condition is very good. Size: 2 3/4 inches wide by 1 inch high at the highest part. The opening for the wrist is 1 1/4 inches. Price: $525.
DV-4: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a pair of beautiful repousse sterling silver earrings, Taxco, c. 1940's. The silverwork is exceptional, and the dangling earrings are stunning!
Condition is very good. Size: 1 1/16 inches long by 1 inch wide. Price: $165.
DV-5: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a stunning Taxco sterling silver cuff bracelet inlaid with wonderful abalone, Taxco, c. 1940's. The abalone shell has wonderful patterns and colorations on each section of the bracelet. The effect is incredible! Condition is very good. Size: when closed, the cuff has an opening that is 8 inches diameter. Price: $250.
DR-9: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a beautiful pair of dangling Taxco silver earrings with looping silver ovals around the center drop, Taxco, c. 1950's. The silver and jet earrings are extremely elegant and graceful. Condition is very good. Size: 2 3/4 inches long by 1 1/10 inches wide, at the widest part. Price: $185.
DD-1: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, a very beautiful pair of sterling silver earrings with an engaging and very unique angle design, Taxco, c. 1940's. The earrings are extremely elegant! They are designed for pierced ears. Condition is very good. Size: 2 inches long by 1 1/4 inches wide. Price: $175.
DC-3: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, a stunning choker-style necklace with a magnificent medallion or pendant, Taxco, c. 1940's. The choker-style necklace is very elegant and graceful, and the silverwork is exceptional. Condition is very good. Size: 13 1/2 inches around the neck with an opening of 2 1/2 inches. The width of the choker-style necklace is c. 3/4 inches at the widest part. The medallion is 1 3/4 inches diameter, not including the silver dangles. Price: $395.
CY-3: Mexican vintage copper and silver jewelry, an elegant and beautiful tea/coffee set of copper with sterling silver decorative scenes on each piece, signed Victoria, Taxco, c. 1940's. The set has eight pieces, including a very large platter. It is very elegant and stunning! Condition is very good. Size: the large platter is 15 1/4 inches diameter; the coffee/tea pot is 8 1/2 inches high by 5 inches widest diameter, not including handles; the sugar pitcher is 4 1/2 inches high by 3 1/4 widest diameter; the milk pitcher is 4 1/2 inches high by 3 inches widest diameter; the two candle holders are each 2 3/4 inches high by 3 3/4 widest diameter at the stands; and the cream pitcher ia 2 1/4 inches high by 1 1/2 inches widest diameter.
SOLD. Thank you!
CX-8: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a lovely pair of dangling silver earrings with fine repousee silverwork, Taxco, c. 1950's. The earrings, made with posts for pierced ears, have a lovely almost sculpted design. They are elegant and graceful. Condition is very good. Size: 1 3/4 inches long by 3/4 inches wide, at the widest part. Price: $75.
CV-1: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a beautiful pair of sterling silver and tortise shell earrings decorated with an Aztec image, possilby a lizard, Taxco, c. 1940's. The combination of silver and tortise shell is wonderful.
The earrings are very graceful and elegant! Condition is very good. Size: 1 1/16 inches wide by 3/4 inches high. Price: $150.
CR-6: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, a beautiful pair of repousse dangling silver earrings with a very graceful form and good silverwork, Taxco, c. 1940's. They are very graceful and elegant. Condition is very good. Size: 1 1/2 inches long by 1 inch wide. Price: $125.
CP-12: Andean vintage devotional art, and Andean vintage sterling silver jewelry, a beautiful relicario with the small retablo beautifully painted on tin, with a lovely hand-made sterling silver chain, c. 1920's. The relicario depicts images of the Virgin Mary and Child Jesus, painted on both sides. The first image is that of the Virgen de Copacabana, Bolivia. This is truly a treasure of Andean devotional art! Condition is very good, given the age of relicario itself. Size: the relicario is 4 3/4 inches high by 2 3/4 inches wide. The silver chain is 23 inches long. Price: $2800.
CN-9: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, a beautiful sterling silver necklace with lovely beads resembling drops of water, Taxco, c. 1940's. The design of the necklace is simple and wonderful; it is extremely graceful and elegant. Condition is very good. Size: 17 1/2 inches long. Price: $195.
CM-5: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, a beautiful sterling silver cuff or clamp-style silver bracelet with wonderful repousee silverwork in the form of delicate leaves and half-spheres, Taxco, c. 1940's. The silverwork of the bracelet is exceptional! Condition is very good. The opening of the cuff is 2 1/4 inches wide when closed. Price: $425.
CK-10: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Purepecha (called Tarascans by Spanish conquerers) ceremonial sterling silver jewelry, a Purepecha necklace with silver and red glass beads, Michoacan, c. 1950.
The silverwork is excellent and the base of the necklace displays dangling silver fish, in the style of the Lake Patzcuaro region of Michoacan. In olden times, the red beads would be of coral. Eventually the coral became too expensive and the red glass beads were used instead in the ceremonial jewelry of the Purepecha. Condition is very good. Size: 19 inches long; the main silver pendant is 6 inches long by 2 inches at the widest part. The sterling silver balls are 3/4 inches diameter. Price: $950.
CJ-9: Mexican vintage sterling silver jewelry, and Taxco vintage silver jewelry, a beautiful pair of sterling silver earrings with wonderful repoussee silverwork and an elegant design, Taxco, c. 1940's. The earrings are exceptionally graceful and elegant. They attach via posts for pierced ears. Condition is very good. Size: 2 inches long by 1 inch at the widest part. Price: $165.
CF-3: Mexican vintage jewelry, and Taxco vintage sterling silver jewelry, a beautiful pair of gold earrings with lovely coral, c. 1920's. The 14K gold is spectacular, and the workmanship is excellent. The earrings are extremely elegant and graceful, and the lovely coral compliments the gold beautifully! Condition is excellent. Size: 2 inches long by 3/4 inches wide, at the widest part. Price: $1400.
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.
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-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-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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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