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Mixed metal is the point of this pin: the Los Castillo workshop made its name marrying copper, brass and silver, and a brooch built from contrasting metals puts that technique on the body. Morrill records the taller producing married-metal work through the postwar years, c.1945-55 (Morrill, p. 98), with pins and buckles among the documented forms (Morrill, p. 91).
The metales casados approach, fusing dissimilar metals into a single worked surface, was central to the workshop's reputation. On a pin the colors of the metals do the decorative work, set off against one another rather than against stone.
Founded in Taxco in 1939, Los Castillo grew into one of the talleres grandes whose scale let it refine techniques like this across years of production (Stromberg, p. 41). Mixed-metal pins are among the more available forms from the workshop and remain a clear entry point to its married-metal vocabulary.
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