Twisted Triangle Earrings

An incised twisted band closed into a triangle, with a small bead set at the center, gives these earrings a compact, graphic form that reproduced well at scale. They appeared in the 1944 Fall-Winter Montgomery Ward catalog, described as "silver braid earrings" priced at $6.50, a record of how Spratling silver reached buyers across the United States.

The twisted, braided band is a recurring Spratling device, here folded into a clean geometric outline. The catalog listing matters: Morrill documents that Spratling silver was featured in the Montgomery Ward catalogues across 1943 to 1946 (Morrill, p. 257), the channel that carried the workshop's designs into American homes well beyond Taxco.

That a pair this modest was offered through a national catalog is part of its interest, placing it within the workshop's commercial reach rather than its showpieces. Catalog-documented earrings of this design are collected as evidence of that distribution.