Early Silver Tie Clasp of Unusual Form

An early tie clasp of unusual form, this is a small piece of the first-period output of the Taller de las Delicias, the workshop Spratling founded in 1931 at the start of the Taxco silver revival (Morrill, p. 14).

Men's accessories like tie clasps were part of the workshop's range of personal silver, and the noted unusual form places it among the experimental early designs rather than the standardized later catalog pieces.

First-period silver of this kind comes to market only occasionally and is collected as an example of the workshop's earliest, less formulaic work.