Bow Shaped Silver Pin, stamp decorated and set with 21 turquoise cabochons
Zuni
- Savvy Price $900.00
- Gallery Price $1,200.00
- Title
- Bow Shaped Silver Pin, stamp decorated and set with 21 turquoise cabochons
- Artist
- Zuni
- Medium
- Silver and natural turquoise
- Troy ounces
- .62 troy ounces
- Size
- 1 1/8" maximum height X 3" width
- Signed
- No
- Date of creation
- 1910-1920
- Condition
- Excellent
- Turquoise
- Natural blue to blue green turquoise with black matrix throughout
- Provenance
- B Sch
- Gram weight
- 17.5 grams
- About The Bow Shaped Silver Pin, stamp decorated and set with 21 turquoise cabochons
Silver sheet, hand-mill rolled from ingot and wire drawn from ingot were used in fabrication of this early bow or butterfly pin.
Twenty one small round cabochons were hand cut from rough, tiny turquoise nugget material in hues of intense blues to right blue greens.
Though the pin mechanism predates "safety catch" invention, the artist who made this pin work hardened and bent the pin wire to create the perfect tension against hook and fabric--enough to keep everything securely in place!
Wherever and however worn, this handsome butterfly bow will pay compliment to thoughtful appreciate of rare and beautiful things.
- About Zuni
The best book to explain the steps in creating Zuni jewelry is Oscar Branson's Indian Jewelry Making. Volume II.
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