Designer Sigi Pineda Taxco Modernist Boomerang Sterling Earrings Style #243 Circa 1960's

Measures 1" L x .75" W (2.54cm x 1.91cm)

Hallmarks: Sigi Tasco Eagle 3 Hecho En Mexico 243

Weight: 10.1g

Fantastic earrings by the renowned Sigi Pineda. One of only 80 of his designs that is marked with a style inventory number. They have recently been professionally polished and look fantastic and bright. They could easily and inexpensively be converted to post back earrings by a jeweler.

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