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A round bangle alternating silver and rosewood segments and studded with silver balls is a tightly dated First Period design: it appeared only in the 1944, 1944-45, and December 1945 wholesale catalogs, a narrow window that makes surviving examples easy to place. The alternation of warm wood and bright metal around a rigid bangle is Spratling's material contrast worked into a continuous ring, the silver balls punctuating the joins.
The ball and the wood-and-silver pairing belong to the vocabulary that runs through his early jewelry. The bracelet is recorded in Mexican Silver Jewelry: The American School 1930-1960, in Morrill's Maestros de Plata, and in Goddard's field guide. Its brief catalog life means an original with intact rosewood and an early mark ties directly to a known production span.
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