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This bird pin comes from the Taxco workshop of Hector Aguilar, one of the makers who carried the town's silver revival into a thriving atelier of his own. Aguilar founded the Taller Borda, where he developed a sturdy, architectural approach to silver, and pieces from his hand are collected today as the mark of that defining figure.
The pin takes a bird as its subject, worked in silver in the solid idiom for which the Taller Borda is known. It falls within Aguilar's principal design period, roughly 1939 to 1962, the most productive stretch of the workshop's life.
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