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This flower pin belongs to the Taxco production of Hector Aguilar, one of the makers who turned the town's silver revival into a workshop of lasting reputation. Aguilar founded and ran the Taller Borda, whose solid, architectural silver gave him a recognizable voice, and pieces from his hand are collected today as the mark of that maker.
The pin takes a flower as its subject, rendered in silver in the substantial idiom associated with the Taller Borda. It dates to Aguilar's main design period, roughly 1939 to 1962, the most productive years of the workshop.
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