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FOURTH EDITION OF MEXICAN SILVER |
The beautiful new blue cover is just a preview of the change
and transformation that have taken place in the fourth edition
of Mexican Silver. The entire text has been typed anew, allowing
for updates, especially related to the deaths of designers and
silversmiths whose lives had been previewed in earlier editions.
Aficionados, collectors and enthusiasts will be delighted with
the forty new photographs that have been added, enhancing an already
heavily illustrated book. Several photographic highlights include
a beautiful tortoise-shell croissant necklace by William Spratling
from the post-Alaska period, a grouping of Spratling's jewelry
and objects which exhibit his use of the dot motif, and several
striking pieces by Antonio Pineda and Héctor Aguilar.
A few new marks have been identified in the chapter on Makers'
Marks, including those of past and current designers. For those
who have searched for information concerning the T-marks, the
new edition contains over 2,300 T-marks from 1993, providing a
historical perspective for this latest attempt on the part of
the Mexican government to assure sterling silver (or better) content.
What has not changed is the wealth of information about the people
in Mexico who made the brooches, belt buckles and bowls highlighted
and described in Mexican Silver. The story is primarily about
a community - silversmiths, lapidaries, carpenters and designers
- involved in the production of objects in silver. Thus, every
time we serve fruit salad or candy in a handwrought silver bowl
or stand before a mirror and adjust our Los Castillo cufflinks
or attach an amethyst flower to the shoulder of a jacket, we recall
the imaginative spirit that made this beauty possible.
Penny Morrill 9/07
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