Featured Vintage TAXCO 940 Sterling Hinged Bracelet...Signature-Age I.D.Help

Any help appreciated.

 

that's a big chunk o' silver....very nice !!!

 

Can't look it up right now, but it looks like a spin-off of a Spratling mark. Maybe someone who once worked for Spratling?
The design is well known, early to mid century, and I forgot the details. Sorry, not much use to you right now, my flu has the upper hand at the moment.
Forgot to say, I love it.

 

I think that's one of the few silver items I might not polish.....the dull aging of the metal gives off a classy vibe !!!!!

Feel better soon , AJ !!!!
Rest and liquids...!!!

 

NICE! I went looking and found a few others by the same maker, but nothing on the maker. It was made probably in the 1930s or 1940s. Beyond that...not a clue.

 

Thanks AJ....Feel Better!!...I`m in the same boat...Also,staying in with a cold/flu!!.........Komo....I will keep it,as is....I like the patina!

 

Same here evelb30....I found another,with the same mark,but no makers name

 

I was reticent to call tarnish......patina.....as some here object to that......but I'm fine with you leaving the age to show on this lovely work !!!

Oh....& get well soon !!!!

 

I'll word this carefully so as not to overstimulate certain minds........kinda resembles an Octopus.......Sperls & AJ......do what you need to to get feeling better soon!!!!!! Warm healing hugs!!

 

They way to make a piece like this look better is to wear it; the tarnish rubs away on its own. It'll never look new, but who wants it to?

 

At a fast glance I wondered if it was a Spratling mark I didn’t know but it definitely isn’t and the similarity is IMO not coincidental. Totally legal though. Nice vintage clamper bracelet of higher quality IMO and made of higher grade Sterlng. I don’t see all that much 940 and I’m always looking for Mexican silver. It’s usually 925, 950 or occasionally 970.

 

I don’t polish my vintage silver with anything other than a cloth with a super light hand. Just enough to remove anything that’s really getting dark.

 

I clean and polish everything. I'm not going to wear someone else's sweat!
Silver is meant to be polished.

Absolutely lovely bracelet.

 

Different strokes lol. If I owned that bracelet and someone made it shiny silver I’d be sick. IMO it depends on the piece. I do keep all modernist silver shined (Peretti e.g.)

 

Thank you both. I've had the flu since the first week of december, it is now officially a viral respiratory febrile infection, flu to you and me. At least I'm viral.
Warm healing hugs help a lot, thanks.(non-infectious)

 

Thank you.