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The interest of this collar lies in its links: small pierced half-oval units joined by incised bands, a repeating scheme that lets the necklace sit close around the neck while staying supple. The design, dated to about 1940 to 1945, comes from the early years in which Hector Aguilar was defining the link vocabulary that would run through his Taxco silver.
The necklace is made in sterling silver and stamped with Aguilar's conjoined HA mark together with the 940 standard and the Taxco origin, the workshop signatures that identify his output. The pierced half-oval links lighten the metal visually while the incised connecting bands give the piece its measured, regular rhythm.
That structural logic, links and joins treated as the design itself, was the foundation of the work Aguilar produced at the Taller Borda. A collar of this early date shows the form in its formative phase, before the heavier later styles, and stands as a clean example of his approach to building a necklace from a single repeated link.
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