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Little tiny metalporn Friday. More of that mid-century Guadalajara silversmith

WeissWeiss Posts: 9,934 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited July 17, 2020 11:35AM in Precious Metals

Found these the same time that I found that brooch, but it took forever to get here. These have a tiny bit of damage, too, with a few flecks of that crazy deep blue turquoise (sure looks like lapis to me) missing.

I'm tempted not to fix it. The nature of these clip on earrings is probably such that you torque them to an extent when you open and close them. I suspect that's what made the tiny pieces pop.

I'd like to think these depict "Jimadores", the farmers who grow and harvest agave to make tequila and mezcal. They use a special type of staff with a round blade on the end called a "coa de jima".

Get anything interesting this week?

A Jimador with his coa:

We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
--Severian the Lame

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  • KliaoKliao Posts: 5,445 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Neat! Your sure building up a collection!

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  • hammer1hammer1 Posts: 3,874 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 17, 2020 3:43PM

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  • TomBTomB Posts: 20,689 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Once you finish those lines you'll be ready to plow the entire neighborhood by hand!

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  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice !!! 👍

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You are assembling an interesting collection...Awakening my long dormant interest in turquoise jewelry....Wish I still had some of my acquisitions....Cheers, RickO

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 27,409 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Way cooling like

  • element159element159 Posts: 493 ✭✭✭

    Awesome! El Jimador is a good brand of tequila as well. Glad to see the Jimadores celebrated!

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Weiss ....Thanks, looks like some very nice pieces there....Cheers, RickO

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