Swirl Pin with Amethyst Was Also Made with a Copper Disc

A swirl of silver set with an amethyst gives this pin its focal stone, and the same design was also made with a copper disc and in other materials, showing how a single form was reworked across the workshop's palette. It is recorded in Phyllis M. Goddard's Spratling Silver field guide and dates to the first design period.

Silver earrings of a similar swirl design were also produced, an instance of the workshop carrying one motif across pin and earring forms. The swirl is part of Spratling's vocabulary of worked silver, with the amethyst as the warm accent at its center.

Documented first-period pins that exist in several material variants are collected as examples of how the workshop treated a strong form as a template, and come to market only occasionally.