Vintage 925 Sterling Silver Sigi Tasco Taxco Mexico Modernist Abstract Fern Brooch Pin

Measures 2.25" L x 1" W (5.72cm x 2.54cm)

Hallmarks: Sigi Tasco Eagle 96 #357

Weight: 8.3g

Fantastic work of art by the renowned Sigi Pineda. Looks like an abstract modernist take on a fern leaf. It has been professionally buff and polished and is in excellent condition! Included with purchase are two sterling silver plated converters so it can be worn as a pendant vertically or horizontally on a necklace if preferred.

Sigfrido Pineda (1929-). The long career of award winning Sigfrido Pineda began as a pre-teenager when be spent three years working at Los Castillo . He is cousin to Los Castillo -founder Antonio Castillo. Pineda then worked with Salvador Terán in 1945 in the city of Puebla, and then with Felipe Martínez at Piedra y Plata . He eventually became head of the enameling workshop at Margot de Taxco in 1949 78 before opening his own shop, Plateros, in 1952. 79 The shop was later renamed Sigi. Sigi items stamped with eagle 16 likely were marked at Margot’s to whom eagle 16 was assigned. Pineda’s work reflects great design flow and very creative use of dimension. Sigi was listed in the magazine This is Mexico as “fine silver” shop. 80 Some of the work by Sigfrido Pineda is marked with an inventory or a design number. Silver, enamel work. Mark : Sigi (script). Eagle number: 2, 3, 16, 25, 34, 35, 36, 95, 96. - Courtesy of Bille Hougart's Mexican Silver Hallmarks Book