Mary Marie Yazzie Lincoln Navajo sterling silver high grade turquoise necklace. Authentic with no damage, with weight and measurements in the pictures. Tested and guaranteed solid sterling silver. 24.5" long necklace. Mary Marie Lincoln is an accomplished Navajo jeweler. For over 35 years she has been known for her simple, yet elegant designs that are timeless. She often combines various colored stones such as coral and turquoise, in her popular “cluster work pieces. She works closely with her brothers, Lee and Raymond Yazzie, who are both well-known award winning jewelers. Mary Marie lives with her family near Gallup, NM. She is featured in Navajo Indian Jewelry by Jerry and Lois Jacka and North American Indian Jewelry and Adornment by Lois Dubin.

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Mary Marie Yazzie Lincoln Navajo Sterling silver Pilot Mountain turquoise bolo tie . Solid sterling silver slide and tips. Weight and measurements in pics. 44" long. Expected wear with no apparent damage. Weight shown is just the entire bolo, if there is a tray pictured it will be tared out of course. Marked Mary Marie behind the cord, not currently shown in pictures but it‘s there. Mary Marie Lincoln is an accomplished Navajo jeweler. For over 35 years she has been known for her simple, yet elegant designs that are timeless. She often combines various colored stones such as coral and turquoise, in her popular “cluster work pieces. She works closely with her brothers, Lee and Raymond Yazzie, who are both well-known award winning jewelers. Mary Marie lives with her family near Gallup, NM. She is featured in Navajo Indian Jewelry by Jerry and Lois Jacka and North American Indian Jewelry and Adornment by Lois Dubin.

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Mary Marie Yazzie Lincoln sterling high grade coral cluster clip-on earrings. Weight and measurements in pics. Solid sterling. Strong springs on clips Mary Marie Lincoln is an accomplished Navajo jeweler. For over 35 years she has been known for her simple, yet elegant designs that are timeless. She often combines various colored stones such as coral and turquoise, in her popular “cluster work pieces. She works closely with her brothers, Lee and Raymond Yazzie, who are both well-known award winning jewelers. Mary Marie lives with her family near Gallup, NM. She is featured in Navajo Indian Jewelry by Jerry and Lois Jacka and North American Indian Jewelry and Adornment by Lois Dubin. Marked or unmarked as shown in pics, weight and other measurements in pics. Sorry but my jewelry is stored in a secure location and cannot be accessed for more pictures,<br>videos, or measurements until sold. If you look at pictures/description your<br>question should be answered. Thank you so much for your time and consideration!<br><br>All precious metals are tested and guaranteed. A Native American jewelry piece referred to as "silver" or "ingot" is guaranteed to be at least 90% silver. Bracelets are photographed on a 6" women‘s wrist.

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Hand Painted Japanese Porcelain Double Gourd Vase 7.5" tall circa mid 20th century, excellent quality. No damage or wear whatsoever.

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Mata Ortiz Pottery jar by Luis Ortiz. No damage or wear 8.5" tall x 7" wide. Very well done pot signed by listed potter Luis Ortiz. b17

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Inside of matting measures 9" x 11.25", frame measures 13" x 15". A little foxing just inside matting. Appears to be a Victorian frame. B1

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Maurice Heaton(1900-1989) 16" Mid Century Modern Enameled Art Glass Charger. No<br>cracks, chips, restorations, or scratches. Guaranteed authentic, great piece of<br>art glass by well listed artist that has works in all the big museums.<br><br>Maurice Heaton grew up with two generations of English glass artists and began<br>experimenting with flat and molded glass as early as 1930. He invented a process<br>in 1947 for firing and shaping his glassware in the studio furnace, which<br>started the ball rolling for the studio glass movement of the 1960s. Heaton’s<br>work spans seven decades, and through his unique range of murals, window<br>hangings, lighting fixtures and tableware, he is considered by many a “true<br>original” (Neues Glas, April 1985).<br>tw177

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Ancient Artifact Prehistoric Mayan Pre-Columbian Pottery Carved Cylindrical<br>Vessel. This and a few more I'm listing are part of an estate collection, I<br>believe they had a small museum in the nineties or before. There was everything<br>from Native American to Pre columbian pottery, everything so far was real. I<br>purchased awhile back but am just now getting around to listing. Guaranteed<br>authentic, hassle free returns. Very old cracks and restorations throughout. 7"<br>tall x 5.5" wide. This is a very special, rare, and labor intensive museum<br>quality piece.<br>tw94

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Maytum Studios Signed Rudin Art Glass perfume bottle 4.5" tall No scratches, dings, cracks, or chips. tw201

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McCabe Belt Buckle Sterling & 10k Gold Cowboy with Lasso Cacti Mountains Custom<br>One of A Kind MAC Likely Presentation Piece 1.5" belt. 95.5 grams, big chunk of<br>gold. Measures 3 11/16" x 2 11/16".

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McCabe Sterling Silver Belt Buckle Sunset Trails. Measures 1.75" x 1.5" and fits a 3/4" belt. Good looking old hand engraved cowboy buckle. Selling two pieces shown, keeper isn't marked but obviously matches.

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MCM 13pc 1930's Cobalt Blue Water Set Cambridge Royal Blue Ball Jug and Mushroom Tumblers. The latest this set can be is 1950's. Great, large Art deco/MCM water set in beautiful, useable condition. Pitcher is 80 oz 8.5" tall x 8.25" handle to spout. Tumblers are 4 5/8" tall and 2 5/8" wide at the rim and hold 12 oz. No cracks, chips, restorations, dings, or scratches. An exceptionally large and clean set that is 70-85 years old.

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MCM 1960's Endre Peter Darvas, Hungary, United States, b.1946 Landscape watercolor. 12.75" x 10.75" framed, 5 5/8" x 3 5/8" sight. Great painting in original period frame, both in wonderful condition. TW187

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MCM Enamel on copper hand painted bowl. Small bowl from the third quarter of the 20th century, well made, signed illegible to me. 3 1/8" wide x 7/8" tall. No damage to enamel, small dent on footrim.

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MCM Libermann Pottery Bantu Folklore Tiles. Selling the 3 cool framed tiles from<br>the 60's or 70's. 7.5" square each with no damage and minimal wear.<br>TW153

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MCM Miniature enamel on copper flowers picture 6" wide frame, no damage, slight wear to frame. Illegible signature. tw271

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MCM Sterling Danecraft Necklace 16" long 43.5 grams. Great design with no damage<br>or issues.<br><br>In the early 1900s, as Italy was continuing to become the world leader in<br>fashion, the Primavera family worked as jewelry artisans in the beautiful area<br>of Pescara, Italy. In 1918, the family founded Primavera Designs and by 1921 it<br>had become the largest jewelry company in the Abruzzo region.<br><br><br><br>It was there that the family became well known throughout the region for their<br>ability to design and make jewelry for royalty and wealthy families. Often one<br>of the Primavera jewelry artisans would go directly into the home of a patron to<br>design and reproduce a cherished object of art into jewelry.<br><br><br><br>This continued in Italy until 1934, when Mr. Victor Primavera, Sr. immigrated to<br>the United States and incorporated his company in Rhode Island; the jewelry<br>capital of the United States. Primavera Designs now had a United States<br>division, known as Danecraft, with a small factory and Mr. Victor Primavera, Sr.<br>heading up the design and model making teams.<br><br><br><br>His forte in designing product was always timeliness. He often said that it was<br>easy to design a piece to be shown in a museum, but it took research and talent<br>to design product that would be worn by a woman with fashion sense.<br><br><br><br>Although the candlelight has been replaced by fluorescent light and some of the<br>painstaking handwork has been supplemented by modern machinery, the rich and<br>beautiful handcrafted look of distinction continues.<br><br>Since 1934, Danecraft has been privately owned and operated by the Primavera<br>family.

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MCM Sterling Pietra Dura Multistone Mosaic Inlay southwestern mountains pendant with Lapis, Coral, and other stones. A somewhat confusing piece made by an artist that seemed to be able to think for oneself and combine many styles but didn't care to sign such a work of art. A fantastic Mid century style to the silver mounting which I have no way of know is period or not, really good lapidiary work on a level that has never really been common in the US, but the scene sure reminds me of an Arizona mountain landscape. All hand done approaching micromosaic level. Tests sterling, completely unmarked. 29 grams 3.5" tall x 2.5" wide. This piece is really clean, there are some marks on the wings in the pics, they were residues of silver polish which I have removed.

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แหวน Meiji Japanese Shakudo Sterling/Gold on Bronze Mixed Metal. แหวนหน้ายาว 1 3/8" ดูดี 15.4 กรัม

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Meiji Japanese Shakudo Sterling/Gold on bronze Mixed Metal ring. Some wear to gold overlay, no other issues.

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Meiji Japanese Silver Enamel Tea Ceremony Set. Cchashaku with maker's mark, all<br>pieces with jungin (pure silver) hallmark, including: (1) cup, approx 3.75"h,<br>(1) narrow spoon with enamel-accented handle, approx 6.5"l, (1) chashaku with<br>enamel-accented handle, approx 6.5"l, (1) approx 5.25"l No damage or significant<br>wear. Nice antique set over 100 years old.<br><br>353.3 grams total weight.<br><br>tw163

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Meiji Period Bronze Japanese Censer. Very fancy high quality Japanese censer from the last half of the 19th century. 12.25" tall 8.5 handle to handle. Very heavy solid bronze. The only identifying mark I found is some dots on the lip of the lid. Nice casting, estate fresh, definitely an antique.

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All hand decorated with great detail and care. Circa late 19th century. No cracks, chips, restorations, crazing, or stains. Wear to gold on rims and minor wear in other places.

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Meiji Period Japanese Arita Hand Painted Porcelain vase. Very high quality<br>painting 10" tall vase from the late 19th century. No cracks, chips, or<br>restorations, wear to most of the gold band on the rim.<br>TW256

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Meiji period Japanese Imari Charger Fine Quality 12.25"<br>Really nice piece, lots of time was spent on this piece 120+ years ago. Gold<br>wear on rim and throughout. No cracks, chips, or restorations.

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Meiji Period Japanese Imari Stacking Bento Box Jubako Stacking Dishes 9" tall x 7" wide One small chip on bottom bowl shown to the left of the first pic. No other cracks, chips, or restorations. From the last half of the 19th century with above average colors and decoration. imshlf

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Meiji Period Japanese Imari Urn with 1940's mountings. Nice urn from the last half of the 19th century, hand painted Japanese Imari. It has been drilled at the top and bottom center, clean holes with no cracks. Looks great and would make a great storage jar though the bottom hole may need to be plugged depending what you're storing, or a lamp, or just leave it like this in all it's glory. No damage other than two drilled holes. 14.5" from base of mounting to top of finial, the porcelain jar with no mountings is about 9" tall. isshelf

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Meiji Period Japanese Studio Porcelain Imari Palette centerpiece.. Great large<br>low bowl over 100 years old, from the first quarter of the 20th century, hand<br>painted, signed on back. No cracks chips, or restorations. 15.5" wide.<br>isshelf

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2 3/8" tall x 1 5/8" wide. Circa late 1800's too early 1900's. No cracks, chips,<br>or restorations, paint wear on nose.

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Meiji Period Totai Shippo Japanese Cloisonne Over Porcelain Coffeepot with<br>Chicken Finial. 19th century extremely rare if not one of a kind. 10" tall x<br>7.5" handle to spout. No restorations, tiniest flake with 1cm long tight<br>hairline on spout.TW196

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โทไท ชิปโป กระเบื้องเคลือบญี่ปุ่น สมัยเมจิ สูง 6 นิ้ว ไม่มีรอยแตก บิ่น มีการบูรณะ หรือสูญหาย มีตำหนิตามที่แสดงบนฐานTW198

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Meiji Period Totai Shippo Japanese Cloisonne Over Porcelain Vase8 3/8" tall with no cracks, chips, restorations, or loss.TW196

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Meissen Blue Onion Bell, 3 Toe Creamer, and Vase. 3 older pieces of Meissen from the first half of the 20th century. Creamer is 3.5" tall, vase is 4.25" tall, bell is 4.5" tall. All pieces with no damage, the bell is lighter blue than the others. tw219

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Meissen Full Green Vine Butter/Cheese Dish พร้อมฝาปิด กว้าง 8.25 "x 4.25" สูง มีตำหนิเคลือบสีเล็กๆ สองจุดบนฝา ไม่มีรอยขีดข่วน รอยแตก รอยแตกร้าว คราบสกปรก การบูรณะ หรือการสึกหรออื่นๆ

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ขวดใส่เครื่องปรุง Meissen Full Green Vine พร้อมแผ่นรองด้านล่างสูง 6.75 นิ้ว รวมสูง 5.5 นิ้ว ไม่มีรอยขีดข่วน รอยแตก รอยแตกร้าว คราบสกปรก การบูรณะ หรือการสึกหรออื่นๆ

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ผักคลุมด้วยเถาวัลย์เขียว Meissen กว้าง 13.25 นิ้ว พร้อมด้ามจับ x สูง 7 นิ้ว ไม่มีรอยขีดข่วน รอยแตก รอยแตก รอยร้าว คราบ การบูรณะ หรือการสึกหรออื่นๆ

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Meissen Full Green Vine Gold Trim หม้ออบมีฝาปิดขนาดใหญ่ สูง 12.5 "กว้าง x 8" ไม่มีรอยแตกร้าวหรือการบูรณะ นี่เป็นผลงานสมัยศตวรรษที่ 19 ที่เก่าแก่มาก มีการสึกหรอเล็กน้อยกับการปิดทองบนฐาน มีรอยสึกทั้งภายนอกและภายในโดยรวมบ้างตามการใช้งาน แสดงผลและทำงานได้อย่างสมบูรณ์แบบ

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Meissen Full Green Vine หม้ออบมีฝาปิดขนาดใหญ่ กว้าง 15 "x 10" สูง ชิ้นนี้เป็นคุณภาพที่สอง สีเขียวอ่อนกว่าชิ้นอื่นเล็กน้อย ไม่มีรอยแตก ร้าว การบูรณะ การชำรุด หรือการสึกหรอ

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Meissen Full Green Vine Relish 11.5" x 9.25" ไม่มีรอยขีดข่วน รอยแตก รอยแตก รอยแตกร้าว การบูรณะ หรือการสึกหรออื่นๆ

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Meissen Full Green Vine Rimmed Fruit Bowl 4 7/8" wide x 1 5/16" tall (multiple available) Selling one with multiple available, you can change quantity in listing. All perfect with No scratches, cracks, chips, crazing, stains, restorations, or other wear.

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Meissen Full Green Vine Scalloped 8 7/8" luncheon Plate (multiple available).<br>Selling one with multiple available, All appear unused with no wear or damage<br>whatsoever.

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Meissen Full Green Vine Scalloped 8" Plate (multiple available) (multiple available).<br>Selling one with multiple available, All appear unused with no wear or damage<br>whatsoever.

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Meissen Full Green Vine ชามเสิร์ฟ 9.25" วงรี และ 10" ไม่มีรอยขีดข่วน รอยแตกร้าว รอยแตกร้าว รอยร้าว การบูรณะ หรือการสึกหรออื่นๆ

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Meissen Full Green Vine แจกัน/บุหรี่/ไม้จิ้มฟันที่ใส่ถาดเถ้า ไม้จิ้มฟันสูง 3.5 นิ้ว ด้านในลึก 2 นิ้ว ถาดถามขนาด 5" ไม่มีรอยขีดข่วน ร้าว ร้าว หลุดร่อน คราบ การบูรณะ หรือการสึกหรออื่นๆ

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17" tall x 9.5" at widest point. All original and very hard to come by. One very<br>small chip on base shown in second pic, and 4 petals missing from boy's wreath.<br>No other chips, no cracks, no restorations. Solid piece not wobbly.

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Meissen Onion Tea Caddy, Match holder, Bone dish, and small tray lot. Nice lot from the first half of the 20th century. 4 1/8" tall tea caddy missing lid, 7.25" bone dish, 4" square tray, 5.25" match holder. Selling all pieces shown with no damage. TW177

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Meissen Onion Vented lid with three holes 7 3/16". Unusual Meissen onion lid top quality, unmarked Measurement is exact. I've only seen one other of these before and it was just placed on the top of a slightly larger bowl, so maybe that's it's purpose. tw172

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Meissen Porcelain Cat Figure. No cracks, chips, restorations, or flaws. From the mid 20th century 7" long x 3.75" to top of tail. Figcab1

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Meissen Rich Court Dragon Dinner Plate Blue with Red Accents 9.75" wide with no<br>cracks, chips, restorations, or wear to gilding/enamel.<br>isshelf

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Meissen Rich Court Dragon Green Demitasse Espresso cup and saucer (multiple available). Selling one Coffee/Demitasse cup and saucer with multiple available. All first quality with no scratches through marks, no chips, no cracks, and very clean to perfect gold. If you want more than one just change the qty please. Saucers 4.25" wide, cups 2 5/8" wide at the rim without handle x 2" tall. osshelf

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Meissen Rose Pink Chamberstick and Carl Thieme Dresden Trinket dish. Selling<br>both pieces with no damage for one price. Meissen has two lines through mark but<br>I can find no flaws. Chamberstick is 2.5" tall, leaf is 4". Both hand painted,<br>high quality.<br>B61

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Meissen Rose Pink Bone Dish Gold Trim Mint 8"(มีหลายชิ้น) ขายชิ้นเดียวมีหลายชิ้น ทั้งหมดนี้ไม่มีรอยแตก บิ่น รอยขีดข่วน รอยร้าว คราบสกปรก หรือการสึกหรอของทอง

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Meissen Rose Pink Gold Rimmed Large Oval Tureen 14.75" x 11" tall. No cracks, chips, scratches, crazing, stains, flaws, or gold wear.

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Meissen Rose Pink Gold Rimmed Soup Bowl 9 3/8" Mint (multiple available) selling one with multiple available, all with no cracks, chips, scratches, crazing, stains, flaws, or gold wear.

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Meka Denmark Red Enamel gilt sterling silver 6.5" bracelet 15" Choker necklace with clip on earrings. No detectable damage to enamel or clasps. Overall good condition with no issues. Strong springs on clip-on earrings.

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Mel Benally Navajo Sterling Opal, and Charoite channel inlay earrings 2.25" long with hooks x .5" wide with no issues 8.9 grams. Mel Benally is a 28 year old Navajo jeweler from Gallup, New Mexico. He was introduced to silversmithing by his older brother when he was 17. He enjoyed creating art through metal and soon learned to do other techniques such as inlay and working with gold. He uses the style called “fuzzing” where he solders silver saw dust to give it a rough texture. Mel loves making jewelry that others will enjoy and be able to share with their friends.!

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Melesio Villareal Taxco Vintage Sterling silver Necklace, Bracelet, and earrings. Tested and guaranteed solid sterling silver with weight and measurements in the pictures. No issues whatsoever, very clean set. 8" bracelet, approx 17" necklace.

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Melvin Francis Navajo Sugilite Sterling Dragonfly pin. No issues, weight and measurements in pics.

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Men's 1960's Elgin Electronic 105 with calendar band. Very cool and unique watch approx 37mm case, untested. Good condition, likely just needs a battery. The Junghans movement came out around 1967 and was the first German transistorized movement.

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Metal/Bronze Medallion collection Cowtown Warriors US/Australian Mateship, Bush Cheney. This is from the living estate of U.S. Diplomat Penne Korth Peacock. Selling the collection shown, some bronze, some other metals, bottom right is plastic. Penny shown in second pic for scale. kitshelf

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Mexican modernist sterling silver cat pin/brooch . Weight and measurements in pics, all solid sterling.

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Mexican Sterling Grape Necklace and ring set. No issues, adjustable ring will comfortably fit most sizes, right now it's about an 8 without stretching or making smaller. Necklace is approximately 18". Both marked and tested sterling. 58.3 grams total

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Michael Horse-Yaqui 14k gold, corn row turquoise/coral bull skull pendant . Circa last quarter of the 20th century with no apparent issues. Tested and guaranteed solid 14k gold (acid tests strong at 14k gold, it‘s higher than 14k) with weight and measurements in pictures. 20" leather and 14k gold necklace. Michael Horse, of Yaqui, Mescalero Apache, Zuni, European and Hispanic descent, was born Michael Heinrich Horse in a place he calls “near Tucson”. He moved to Los Angeles,“the biggest urban Indian community in the U.S.,” when he was ten. There, Navajo, Cheyenne, and Sioux families surrounded him. He participated in the ceremonial dances at intertribal powwows from an early age. Not surprisingly, given his network of resources and diverse tribal bonds, Horse turned out to be a “polymath”, mastering several traditional artistic disciplines. He learned jewelry-making from his uncles. His mother trained him in the flat style of painting promoted by Dorothy Dunn at the Santa Fe Indian School. She was also a potter and a kachina carver. As a young man, he studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe with the painter Fritz Scholder, the stone sculptor Allen Houser, and the potter-turned-jewelry-maker Charles Loloma. Horse built a successful career as a sculptor and jewelry-maker himself, working the fairs, markets, and Native American arts festivals. Michael learned how to make jewelry from family and other native artists who were kind enough to teach him. He had seen jewelry being made from the time he was a child. He says, “In my early silversmith career, I liked to make larger pieces, large silver bolos, horse bridals, and actual handmade silver sculptures. Someday, I hope to have time to go back and reexamine these pieces and do similar work again.” “As long as I have been doing this,” Michael says, “I still never run out of inspiration or innovation in what can be done with this art form. Nature and spirituality are constant influences in my work. I am also inspired by non-Native artists such as Picasso and Michaelangelo, and I am inspired deeply by political artists, those who use their work to inspire others such as Diego Rivera.” “I’m finding now that from my travel among other native cultures that I am starting to use images that I did not grow up with. I am inspired by other tribal artists. From the plains to South America to Africa, I’m finding that there are similar patterns among indigenous people around the world and that it is indeed a very small place. It is a place with similarities among us indigenous people that don’t seem to be accidental. Michael had always been moved by the older kachina jewelry that had been made in the 1940s. These older pieces have inspired him to make amazingly detailed kachina bolos, earrings, and pendants. During the Southwest Museum’s 20 year retrospective of his work, he realized that had not taken many photos of his work over his career. He had to try to round up pieces from collectors for the show. Upon seeing the body of his work, he realized the subtle changes it was going through as the years passed. He was also surprised to realize that some of his early work was as interesting as his new work. “I go back and forth in my work, from the traditional to the contemporary, and I learn on this journey how the both are connected. One of the most rewarding aspects of being a jeweler is when I meet someone for the first time who owns a piece of my art, and they tell me how much they enjoy it and how many compliments they receive when they wear it. To me, that is a feeling like no other.” Then, Horse made a discovery that shifted his orientation as an artist: ledger art. “I have always been into arts. The acting was something that I had an opportunity to do. Art is my passion; it‘s my life. I grew up doing jewelry. I used to work for the Heye Foundation at the Museum of the American Indian in New York and when no one was looking I used to go sneak and look at stuff. That was where I first found this tribal art, the ledger art that I do. I was fascinated that first time I saw it and thought this is my history. Even though this was a plains style I knew that this was the way that all of us had recorded our history at one time. I used to just do this because I was a fan of the art form but now I am pretty much an authority on this art form. The last few years of doing this I thought to myself wherever you physically and culturally repressed people, this art exists. I am trying to put together an exhibition for the Smithsonian about the artwork that comes out of internment camps. The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles has a lot of drawings, similar to the ledger art, from the concentration camps. Similar works also exist from times of slavery in the South, on Angel Island, and now from Darfur. In this country, the name itself hints at the history of this art form, which originated in the 1800s. Plains Indians, confined to reservations and deprived of the animal hides that served as supports for traditional painting, continued to make paintings using whatever materials they could find. Discarded sheets from the ledger books in which the white men kept track of their accounts were in abundant supply. These pages served as surfaces on which to preserve traditional stories and record contemporary events. As a painter Michael Horse has brought reinvigorated inspiration to the traditional Native American style of “ledger art.” In the reservation era, as the practice of painting on buffalo hides became impossible, any “canvas” readily available took its place with various scrap papers such as book pages, old letters, maps and ledger books becoming background for visual recollections of heroic battles, scenes of ceremony, hunting and daily life. Newer implements such as crayons, colored pencils and water-colors allowed for a new breadth of detail. This traditional folk art was very free-flowing, Michael Horse points out, incorporating symbols and movement, almost like a film scene with images leading right off the pages in a very uncontained style. Having had the opportunity to see many of the old, original ledger drawings through his work with museums, Michael Horse explains its pull on him: “I knew this was my history book, coming from my point of view.” Moved by the creativity and resourcefulness of his ancestors under such oppressive conditions, Horse undertook to reconceive ledger art as a contemporary genre. He continues to work in silver and stone, but his study of ledger art and output in the genre has made him a leading figure the field of contemporary painting and a source of inspiration for other artists and cultural producers. “I don’t copy,” he clarifies, “or imitate traditional material.” Rather he employs a traditional formal vocabulary to speak about the past in the present tense and shed light on cultural continuities. He tracks down old documents to use as canvases: maps, marriage certificates, pages from ledgers and hymnals. He outlines his figures in black against this background and fills in the outlined forms with bright planes of color. A rider gallops astride a green horse amidst a herd of buffalo. Warriors charge into battle. Clans gather to celebrate a feast day. The figures are stylized and iconic. The dynamic compositions have an uneasy relationship to the page, as if resisting containment within its bounds. Man and beast are inscribed against a ground signifying extinction and interment — but they are light, swift, full of vitality. Many of the paintings bear biting titles: We Are Still Here, Don’t Take My Picture, This Land Is Your Land. He is very proud of the paths that Native art have taken, as well as the path that it is moving toward with younger artists. He himself was inspired by some of his peers, and hopes that someday younger people might learn from and be inspired by some of his work. A true modern day renaissance man, Michael is a jeweler, actor, stunt man, sculptor, painter and activist. As an actor, he has appeared in many movies and on television, including Twin Peaks, Passenger 57, Lakota Woman, and the CBC Canadian series, North of 60. His works of art have been shown in galleries throughout the world, and are currently available at the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, the Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles, the Eiteljorg Museum in Indiana, Kiva Fine Art Gallery in Santa Fe, and Gathe Tribes Gallery in Albany, California. He says that, “If somebody asked me how I would like to end my career, I would say I would like it to end with inspiring younger artists. I’m very interested in our youth. In the last few years, I’ve become involved with working with inner city and rural native youth, hoping that I might be able to steer them toward a more positive and creative path.”

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Michael Horse-Yaqui 14k gold, diamond, emerald, ruby, sterling silver necklace. Circa last quarter of the 20th century with no apparent issues. Tested and guaranteed solid 14k gold 24" long necklace, solid 14k gold top plate on pendant overlaid on top of sterling silver backplate, solid 14k gold bezels for feathers with sterling silver back plate. Weight and measurements in pictures. Natural Diamond, Emerald, and Ruby. Michael Horse, of Yaqui, Mescalero Apache, Zuni, European and Hispanic descent, was born Michael Heinrich Horse in a place he calls “near Tucson”. He moved to Los Angeles,“the biggest urban Indian community in the U.S.,” when he was ten. There, Navajo, Cheyenne, and Sioux families surrounded him. He participated in the ceremonial dances at intertribal powwows from an early age. Not surprisingly, given his network of resources and diverse tribal bonds, Horse turned out to be a “polymath”, mastering several traditional artistic disciplines. He learned jewelry-making from his uncles. His mother trained him in the flat style of painting promoted by Dorothy Dunn at the Santa Fe Indian School. She was also a potter and a kachina carver. As a young man, he studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe with the painter Fritz Scholder, the stone sculptor Allen Houser, and the potter-turned-jewelry-maker Charles Loloma. Horse built a successful career as a sculptor and jewelry-maker himself, working the fairs, markets, and Native American arts festivals. Michael learned how to make jewelry from family and other native artists who were kind enough to teach him. He had seen jewelry being made from the time he was a child. He says, “In my early silversmith career, I liked to make larger pieces, large silver bolos, horse bridals, and actual handmade silver sculptures. Someday, I hope to have time to go back and reexamine these pieces and do similar work again.” “As long as I have been doing this,” Michael says, “I still never run out of inspiration or innovation in what can be done with this art form. Nature and spirituality are constant influences in my work. I am also inspired by non-Native artists such as Picasso and Michaelangelo, and I am inspired deeply by political artists, those who use their work to inspire others such as Diego Rivera.” “I’m finding now that from my travel among other native cultures that I am starting to use images that I did not grow up with. I am inspired by other tribal artists. From the plains to South America to Africa, I’m finding that there are similar patterns among indigenous people around the world and that it is indeed a very small place. It is a place with similarities among us indigenous people that don’t seem to be accidental. Michael had always been moved by the older kachina jewelry that had been made in the 1940s. These older pieces have inspired him to make amazingly detailed kachina bolos, earrings, and pendants. During the Southwest Museum’s 20 year retrospective of his work, he realized that had not taken many photos of his work over his career. He had to try to round up pieces from collectors for the show. Upon seeing the body of his work, he realized the subtle changes it was going through as the years passed. He was also surprised to realize that some of his early work was as interesting as his new work. “I go back and forth in my work, from the traditional to the contemporary, and I learn on this journey how the both are connected. One of the most rewarding aspects of being a jeweler is when I meet someone for the first time who owns a piece of my art, and they tell me how much they enjoy it and how many compliments they receive when they wear it. To me, that is a feeling like no other.” Then, Horse made a discovery that shifted his orientation as an artist: ledger art. “I have always been into arts. The acting was something that I had an opportunity to do. Art is my passion; it‘s my life. I grew up doing jewelry. I used to work for the Heye Foundation at the Museum of the American Indian in New York and when no one was looking I used to go sneak and look at stuff. That was where I first found this tribal art, the ledger art that I do. I was fascinated that first time I saw it and thought this is my history. Even though this was a plains style I knew that this was the way that all of us had recorded our history at one time. I used to just do this because I was a fan of the art form but now I am pretty much an authority on this art form. The last few years of doing this I thought to myself wherever you physically and culturally repressed people, this art exists. I am trying to put together an exhibition for the Smithsonian about the artwork that comes out of internment camps. The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles has a lot of drawings, similar to the ledger art, from the concentration camps. Similar works also exist from times of slavery in the South, on Angel Island, and now from Darfur. In this country, the name itself hints at the history of this art form, which originated in the 1800s. Plains Indians, confined to reservations and deprived of the animal hides that served as supports for traditional painting, continued to make paintings using whatever materials they could find. Discarded sheets from the ledger books in which the white men kept track of their accounts were in abundant supply. These pages served as surfaces on which to preserve traditional stories and record contemporary events. As a painter Michael Horse has brought reinvigorated inspiration to the traditional Native American style of “ledger art.” In the reservation era, as the practice of painting on buffalo hides became impossible, any “canvas” readily available took its place with various scrap papers such as book pages, old letters, maps and ledger books becoming background for visual recollections of heroic battles, scenes of ceremony, hunting and daily life. Newer implements such as crayons, colored pencils and water-colors allowed for a new breadth of detail. This traditional folk art was very free-flowing, Michael Horse points out, incorporating symbols and movement, almost like a film scene with images leading right off the pages in a very uncontained style. Having had the opportunity to see many of the old, original ledger drawings through his work with museums, Michael Horse explains its pull on him: “I knew this was my history book, coming from my point of view.” Moved by the creativity and resourcefulness of his ancestors under such oppressive conditions, Horse undertook to reconceive ledger art as a contemporary genre. He continues to work in silver and stone, but his study of ledger art and output in the genre has made him a leading figure the field of contemporary painting and a source of inspiration for other artists and cultural producers. “I don’t copy,” he clarifies, “or imitate traditional material.” Rather he employs a traditional formal vocabulary to speak about the past in the present tense and shed light on cultural continuities. He tracks down old documents to use as canvases: maps, marriage certificates, pages from ledgers and hymnals. He outlines his figures in black against this background and fills in the outlined forms with bright planes of color. A rider gallops astride a green horse amidst a herd of buffalo. Warriors charge into battle. Clans gather to celebrate a feast day. The figures are stylized and iconic. The dynamic compositions have an uneasy relationship to the page, as if resisting containment within its bounds. Man and beast are inscribed against a ground signifying extinction and interment — but they are light, swift, full of vitality. Many of the paintings bear biting titles: We Are Still Here, Don’t Take My Picture, This Land Is Your Land. He is very proud of the paths that Native art have taken, as well as the path that it is moving toward with younger artists. He himself was inspired by some of his peers, and hopes that someday younger people might learn from and be inspired by some of his work. A true modern day renaissance man, Michael is a jeweler, actor, stunt man, sculptor, painter and activist. As an actor, he has appeared in many movies and on television, including Twin Peaks, Passenger 57, Lakota Woman, and the CBC Canadian series, North of 60. His works of art have been shown in galleries throughout the world, and are currently available at the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, the Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles, the Eiteljorg Museum in Indiana, Kiva Fine Art Gallery in Santa Fe, and Gathe Tribes Gallery in Albany, California. He says that, “If somebody asked me how I would like to end my career, I would say I would like it to end with inspiring younger artists. I’m very interested in our youth. In the last few years, I’ve become involved with working with inner city and rural native youth, hoping that I might be able to steer them toward a more positive and creative path.”

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Michael Horse-Yaqui 14k gold, sugilite, coral yei pendant/necklace . Circa last quarter of the 20th century with no apparent issues. Tested and guaranteed solid 14k gold with weight and measurements in pictures. 18" necklace. Necklace marked 14k, original to this piece and made by Michael Horse. There was another silver pieces in this collection with a silver necklace of similar construction made by the same artist. Michael Horse, of Yaqui, Mescalero Apache, Zuni, European and Hispanic descent, was born Michael Heinrich Horse in a place he calls “near Tucson”. He moved to Los Angeles,“the biggest urban Indian community in the U.S.,” when he was ten. There, Navajo, Cheyenne, and Sioux families surrounded him. He participated in the ceremonial dances at intertribal powwows from an early age. Not surprisingly, given his network of resources and diverse tribal bonds, Horse turned out to be a “polymath”, mastering several traditional artistic disciplines. He learned jewelry-making from his uncles. His mother trained him in the flat style of painting promoted by Dorothy Dunn at the Santa Fe Indian School. She was also a potter and a kachina carver. As a young man, he studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe with the painter Fritz Scholder, the stone sculptor Allen Houser, and the potter-turned-jewelry-maker Charles Loloma. Horse built a successful career as a sculptor and jewelry-maker himself, working the fairs, markets, and Native American arts festivals. Michael learned how to make jewelry from family and other native artists who were kind enough to teach him. He had seen jewelry being made from the time he was a child. He says, “In my early silversmith career, I liked to make larger pieces, large silver bolos, horse bridals, and actual handmade silver sculptures. Someday, I hope to have time to go back and reexamine these pieces and do similar work again.” “As long as I have been doing this,” Michael says, “I still never run out of inspiration or innovation in what can be done with this art form. Nature and spirituality are constant influences in my work. I am also inspired by non-Native artists such as Picasso and Michaelangelo, and I am inspired deeply by political artists, those who use their work to inspire others such as Diego Rivera.” “I’m finding now that from my travel among other native cultures that I am starting to use images that I did not grow up with. I am inspired by other tribal artists. From the plains to South America to Africa, I’m finding that there are similar patterns among indigenous people around the world and that it is indeed a very small place. It is a place with similarities among us indigenous people that don’t seem to be accidental. Michael had always been moved by the older kachina jewelry that had been made in the 1940s. These older pieces have inspired him to make amazingly detailed kachina bolos, earrings, and pendants. During the Southwest Museum’s 20 year retrospective of his work, he realized that had not taken many photos of his work over his career. He had to try to round up pieces from collectors for the show. Upon seeing the body of his work, he realized the subtle changes it was going through as the years passed. He was also surprised to realize that some of his early work was as interesting as his new work. “I go back and forth in my work, from the traditional to the contemporary, and I learn on this journey how the both are connected. One of the most rewarding aspects of being a jeweler is when I meet someone for the first time who owns a piece of my art, and they tell me how much they enjoy it and how many compliments they receive when they wear it. To me, that is a feeling like no other.” Then, Horse made a discovery that shifted his orientation as an artist: ledger art. “I have always been into arts. The acting was something that I had an opportunity to do. Art is my passion; it‘s my life. I grew up doing jewelry. I used to work for the Heye Foundation at the Museum of the American Indian in New York and when no one was looking I used to go sneak and look at stuff. That was where I first found this tribal art, the ledger art that I do. I was fascinated that first time I saw it and thought this is my history. Even though this was a plains style I knew that this was the way that all of us had recorded our history at one time. I used to just do this because I was a fan of the art form but now I am pretty much an authority on this art form. The last few years of doing this I thought to myself wherever you physically and culturally repressed people, this art exists. I am trying to put together an exhibition for the Smithsonian about the artwork that comes out of internment camps. The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles has a lot of drawings, similar to the ledger art, from the concentration camps. Similar works also exist from times of slavery in the South, on Angel Island, and now from Darfur. In this country, the name itself hints at the history of this art form, which originated in the 1800s. Plains Indians, confined to reservations and deprived of the animal hides that served as supports for traditional painting, continued to make paintings using whatever materials they could find. Discarded sheets from the ledger books in which the white men kept track of their accounts were in abundant supply. These pages served as surfaces on which to preserve traditional stories and record contemporary events. As a painter Michael Horse has brought reinvigorated inspiration to the traditional Native American style of “ledger art.” In the reservation era, as the practice of painting on buffalo hides became impossible, any “canvas” readily available took its place with various scrap papers such as book pages, old letters, maps and ledger books becoming background for visual recollections of heroic battles, scenes of ceremony, hunting and daily life. Newer implements such as crayons, colored pencils and water-colors allowed for a new breadth of detail. This traditional folk art was very free-flowing, Michael Horse points out, incorporating symbols and movement, almost like a film scene with images leading right off the pages in a very uncontained style. Having had the opportunity to see many of the old, original ledger drawings through his work with museums, Michael Horse explains its pull on him: “I knew this was my history book, coming from my point of view.” Moved by the creativity and resourcefulness of his ancestors under such oppressive conditions, Horse undertook to reconceive ledger art as a contemporary genre. He continues to work in silver and stone, but his study of ledger art and output in the genre has made him a leading figure the field of contemporary painting and a source of inspiration for other artists and cultural producers. “I don’t copy,” he clarifies, “or imitate traditional material.” Rather he employs a traditional formal vocabulary to speak about the past in the present tense and shed light on cultural continuities. He tracks down old documents to use as canvases: maps, marriage certificates, pages from ledgers and hymnals. He outlines his figures in black against this background and fills in the outlined forms with bright planes of color. A rider gallops astride a green horse amidst a herd of buffalo. Warriors charge into battle. Clans gather to celebrate a feast day. The figures are stylized and iconic. The dynamic compositions have an uneasy relationship to the page, as if resisting containment within its bounds. Man and beast are inscribed against a ground signifying extinction and interment — but they are light, swift, full of vitality. Many of the paintings bear biting titles: We Are Still Here, Don’t Take My Picture, This Land Is Your Land. He is very proud of the paths that Native art have taken, as well as the path that it is moving toward with younger artists. He himself was inspired by some of his peers, and hopes that someday younger people might learn from and be inspired by some of his work. A true modern day renaissance man, Michael is a jeweler, actor, stunt man, sculptor, painter and activist. As an actor, he has appeared in many movies and on television, including Twin Peaks, Passenger 57, Lakota Woman, and the CBC Canadian series, North of 60. His works of art have been shown in galleries throughout the world, and are currently available at the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, the Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles, the Eiteljorg Museum in Indiana, Kiva Fine Art Gallery in Santa Fe, and Gathe Tribes Gallery in Albany, California. He says that, “If somebody asked me how I would like to end my career, I would say I would like it to end with inspiring younger artists. I’m very interested in our youth. In the last few years, I’ve become involved with working with inner city and rural native youth, hoping that I might be able to steer them toward a more positive and creative path.”

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Michael Horse-Yaqui natural Opal, diamond, 14k gold kachina figural pendant . Circa last quarter of the 20th century with no apparent issues. Tested and guaranteed solid 14k gold with weight and measurements in pictures. Natural opal, natural diamond. Michael Horse, of Yaqui, Mescalero Apache, Zuni, European and Hispanic descent, was born Michael Heinrich Horse in a place he calls “near Tucson”. He moved to Los Angeles,“the biggest urban Indian community in the U.S.,” when he was ten. There, Navajo, Cheyenne, and Sioux families surrounded him. He participated in the ceremonial dances at intertribal powwows from an early age. Not surprisingly, given his network of resources and diverse tribal bonds, Horse turned out to be a “polymath”, mastering several traditional artistic disciplines. He learned jewelry-making from his uncles. His mother trained him in the flat style of painting promoted by Dorothy Dunn at the Santa Fe Indian School. She was also a potter and a kachina carver. As a young man, he studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe with the painter Fritz Scholder, the stone sculptor Allen Houser, and the potter-turned-jewelry-maker Charles Loloma. Horse built a successful career as a sculptor and jewelry-maker himself, working the fairs, markets, and Native American arts festivals. Michael learned how to make jewelry from family and other native artists who were kind enough to teach him. He had seen jewelry being made from the time he was a child. He says, “In my early silversmith career, I liked to make larger pieces, large silver bolos, horse bridals, and actual handmade silver sculptures. Someday, I hope to have time to go back and reexamine these pieces and do similar work again.” “As long as I have been doing this,” Michael says, “I still never run out of inspiration or innovation in what can be done with this art form. Nature and spirituality are constant influences in my work. I am also inspired by non-Native artists such as Picasso and Michaelangelo, and I am inspired deeply by political artists, those who use their work to inspire others such as Diego Rivera.” “I’m finding now that from my travel among other native cultures that I am starting to use images that I did not grow up with. I am inspired by other tribal artists. From the plains to South America to Africa, I’m finding that there are similar patterns among indigenous people around the world and that it is indeed a very small place. It is a place with similarities among us indigenous people that don’t seem to be accidental. Michael had always been moved by the older kachina jewelry that had been made in the 1940s. These older pieces have inspired him to make amazingly detailed kachina bolos, earrings, and pendants. During the Southwest Museum’s 20 year retrospective of his work, he realized that had not taken many photos of his work over his career. He had to try to round up pieces from collectors for the show. Upon seeing the body of his work, he realized the subtle changes it was going through as the years passed. He was also surprised to realize that some of his early work was as interesting as his new work. “I go back and forth in my work, from the traditional to the contemporary, and I learn on this journey how the both are connected. One of the most rewarding aspects of being a jeweler is when I meet someone for the first time who owns a piece of my art, and they tell me how much they enjoy it and how many compliments they receive when they wear it. To me, that is a feeling like no other.” Then, Horse made a discovery that shifted his orientation as an artist: ledger art. “I have always been into arts. The acting was something that I had an opportunity to do. Art is my passion; it‘s my life. I grew up doing jewelry. I used to work for the Heye Foundation at the Museum of the American Indian in New York and when no one was looking I used to go sneak and look at stuff. That was where I first found this tribal art, the ledger art that I do. I was fascinated that first time I saw it and thought this is my history. Even though this was a plains style I knew that this was the way that all of us had recorded our history at one time. I used to just do this because I was a fan of the art form but now I am pretty much an authority on this art form. The last few years of doing this I thought to myself wherever you physically and culturally repressed people, this art exists. I am trying to put together an exhibition for the Smithsonian about the artwork that comes out of internment camps. The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles has a lot of drawings, similar to the ledger art, from the concentration camps. Similar works also exist from times of slavery in the South, on Angel Island, and now from Darfur. In this country, the name itself hints at the history of this art form, which originated in the 1800s. Plains Indians, confined to reservations and deprived of the animal hides that served as supports for traditional painting, continued to make paintings using whatever materials they could find. Discarded sheets from the ledger books in which the white men kept track of their accounts were in abundant supply. These pages served as surfaces on which to preserve traditional stories and record contemporary events. As a painter Michael Horse has brought reinvigorated inspiration to the traditional Native American style of “ledger art.” In the reservation era, as the practice of painting on buffalo hides became impossible, any “canvas” readily available took its place with various scrap papers such as book pages, old letters, maps and ledger books becoming background for visual recollections of heroic battles, scenes of ceremony, hunting and daily life. Newer implements such as crayons, colored pencils and water-colors allowed for a new breadth of detail. This traditional folk art was very free-flowing, Michael Horse points out, incorporating symbols and movement, almost like a film scene with images leading right off the pages in a very uncontained style. Having had the opportunity to see many of the old, original ledger drawings through his work with museums, Michael Horse explains its pull on him: “I knew this was my history book, coming from my point of view.” Moved by the creativity and resourcefulness of his ancestors under such oppressive conditions, Horse undertook to reconceive ledger art as a contemporary genre. He continues to work in silver and stone, but his study of ledger art and output in the genre has made him a leading figure the field of contemporary painting and a source of inspiration for other artists and cultural producers. “I don’t copy,” he clarifies, “or imitate traditional material.” Rather he employs a traditional formal vocabulary to speak about the past in the present tense and shed light on cultural continuities. He tracks down old documents to use as canvases: maps, marriage certificates, pages from ledgers and hymnals. He outlines his figures in black against this background and fills in the outlined forms with bright planes of color. A rider gallops astride a green horse amidst a herd of buffalo. Warriors charge into battle. Clans gather to celebrate a feast day. The figures are stylized and iconic. The dynamic compositions have an uneasy relationship to the page, as if resisting containment within its bounds. Man and beast are inscribed against a ground signifying extinction and interment — but they are light, swift, full of vitality. Many of the paintings bear biting titles: We Are Still Here, Don’t Take My Picture, This Land Is Your Land. He is very proud of the paths that Native art have taken, as well as the path that it is moving toward with younger artists. He himself was inspired by some of his peers, and hopes that someday younger people might learn from and be inspired by some of his work. A true modern day renaissance man, Michael is a jeweler, actor, stunt man, sculptor, painter and activist. As an actor, he has appeared in many movies and on television, including Twin Peaks, Passenger 57, Lakota Woman, and the CBC Canadian series, North of 60. His works of art have been shown in galleries throughout the world, and are currently available at the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, the Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles, the Eiteljorg Museum in Indiana, Kiva Fine Art Gallery in Santa Fe, and Gathe Tribes Gallery in Albany, California. He says that, “If somebody asked me how I would like to end my career, I would say I would like it to end with inspiring younger artists. I’m very interested in our youth. In the last few years, I’ve become involved with working with inner city and rural native youth, hoping that I might be able to steer them toward a more positive and creative path.”

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Michael Horse-Yaqui Sterling silver inlay Kachina pendant beaded necklace. Circa last quarter of the 20th century with no apparent issues. Tested and guaranteed solid sterling silver with weight and measurements in pictures. Turquoise, sugilite and a few different types of high grade coral. This necklace though not signed by the artist was made by him. Michael Horse, of Yaqui, Mescalero Apache, Zuni, European and Hispanic descent, was born Michael Heinrich Horse in a place he calls “near Tucson”. He moved to Los Angeles,“the biggest urban Indian community in the U.S.,” when he was ten. There, Navajo, Cheyenne, and Sioux families surrounded him. He participated in the ceremonial dances at intertribal powwows from an early age. Not surprisingly, given his network of resources and diverse tribal bonds, Horse turned out to be a “polymath”, mastering several traditional artistic disciplines. He learned jewelry-making from his uncles. His mother trained him in the flat style of painting promoted by Dorothy Dunn at the Santa Fe Indian School. She was also a potter and a kachina carver. As a young man, he studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe with the painter Fritz Scholder, the stone sculptor Allen Houser, and the potter-turned-jewelry-maker Charles Loloma. Horse built a successful career as a sculptor and jewelry-maker himself, working the fairs, markets, and Native American arts festivals. Michael learned how to make jewelry from family and other native artists who were kind enough to teach him. He had seen jewelry being made from the time he was a child. He says, “In my early silversmith career, I liked to make larger pieces, large silver bolos, horse bridals, and actual handmade silver sculptures. Someday, I hope to have time to go back and reexamine these pieces and do similar work again.” “As long as I have been doing this,” Michael says, “I still never run out of inspiration or innovation in what can be done with this art form. Nature and spirituality are constant influences in my work. I am also inspired by non-Native artists such as Picasso and Michaelangelo, and I am inspired deeply by political artists, those who use their work to inspire others such as Diego Rivera.” “I’m finding now that from my travel among other native cultures that I am starting to use images that I did not grow up with. I am inspired by other tribal artists. From the plains to South America to Africa, I’m finding that there are similar patterns among indigenous people around the world and that it is indeed a very small place. It is a place with similarities among us indigenous people that don’t seem to be accidental. Michael had always been moved by the older kachina jewelry that had been made in the 1940s. These older pieces have inspired him to make amazingly detailed kachina bolos, earrings, and pendants. During the Southwest Museum’s 20 year retrospective of his work, he realized that had not taken many photos of his work over his career. He had to try to round up pieces from collectors for the show. Upon seeing the body of his work, he realized the subtle changes it was going through as the years passed. He was also surprised to realize that some of his early work was as interesting as his new work. “I go back and forth in my work, from the traditional to the contemporary, and I learn on this journey how the both are connected. One of the most rewarding aspects of being a jeweler is when I meet someone for the first time who owns a piece of my art, and they tell me how much they enjoy it and how many compliments they receive when they wear it. To me, that is a feeling like no other.” Then, Horse made a discovery that shifted his orientation as an artist: ledger art. “I have always been into arts. The acting was something that I had an opportunity to do. Art is my passion; it‘s my life. I grew up doing jewelry. I used to work for the Heye Foundation at the Museum of the American Indian in New York and when no one was looking I used to go sneak and look at stuff. That was where I first found this tribal art, the ledger art that I do. I was fascinated that first time I saw it and thought this is my history. Even though this was a plains style I knew that this was the way that all of us had recorded our history at one time. I used to just do this because I was a fan of the art form but now I am pretty much an authority on this art form. The last few years of doing this I thought to myself wherever you physically and culturally repressed people, this art exists. I am trying to put together an exhibition for the Smithsonian about the artwork that comes out of internment camps. The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles has a lot of drawings, similar to the ledger art, from the concentration camps. Similar works also exist from times of slavery in the South, on Angel Island, and now from Darfur. In this country, the name itself hints at the history of this art form, which originated in the 1800s. Plains Indians, confined to reservations and deprived of the animal hides that served as supports for traditional painting, continued to make paintings using whatever materials they could find. Discarded sheets from the ledger books in which the white men kept track of their accounts were in abundant supply. These pages served as surfaces on which to preserve traditional stories and record contemporary events. As a painter Michael Horse has brought reinvigorated inspiration to the traditional Native American style of “ledger art.” In the reservation era, as the practice of painting on buffalo hides became impossible, any “canvas” readily available took its place with various scrap papers such as book pages, old letters, maps and ledger books becoming background for visual recollections of heroic battles, scenes of ceremony, hunting and daily life. Newer implements such as crayons, colored pencils and water-colors allowed for a new breadth of detail. This traditional folk art was very free-flowing, Michael Horse points out, incorporating symbols and movement, almost like a film scene with images leading right off the pages in a very uncontained style. Having had the opportunity to see many of the old, original ledger drawings through his work with museums, Michael Horse explains its pull on him: “I knew this was my history book, coming from my point of view.” Moved by the creativity and resourcefulness of his ancestors under such oppressive conditions, Horse undertook to reconceive ledger art as a contemporary genre. He continues to work in silver and stone, but his study of ledger art and output in the genre has made him a leading figure the field of contemporary painting and a source of inspiration for other artists and cultural producers. “I don’t copy,” he clarifies, “or imitate traditional material.” Rather he employs a traditional formal vocabulary to speak about the past in the present tense and shed light on cultural continuities. He tracks down old documents to use as canvases: maps, marriage certificates, pages from ledgers and hymnals. He outlines his figures in black against this background and fills in the outlined forms with bright planes of color. A rider gallops astride a green horse amidst a herd of buffalo. Warriors charge into battle. Clans gather to celebrate a feast day. The figures are stylized and iconic. The dynamic compositions have an uneasy relationship to the page, as if resisting containment within its bounds. Man and beast are inscribed against a ground signifying extinction and interment — but they are light, swift, full of vitality. Many of the paintings bear biting titles: We Are Still Here, Don’t Take My Picture, This Land Is Your Land. He is very proud of the paths that Native art have taken, as well as the path that it is moving toward with younger artists. He himself was inspired by some of his peers, and hopes that someday younger people might learn from and be inspired by some of his work. A true modern day renaissance man, Michael is a jeweler, actor, stunt man, sculptor, painter and activist. As an actor, he has appeared in many movies and on television, including Twin Peaks, Passenger 57, Lakota Woman, and the CBC Canadian series, North of 60. His works of art have been shown in galleries throughout the world, and are currently available at the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, the Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles, the Eiteljorg Museum in Indiana, Kiva Fine Art Gallery in Santa Fe, and Gathe Tribes Gallery in Albany, California. He says that, “If somebody asked me how I would like to end my career, I would say I would like it to end with inspiring younger artists. I’m very interested in our youth. In the last few years, I’ve become involved with working with inner city and rural native youth, hoping that I might be able to steer them toward a more positive and creative path.”

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Michael Horse-Yaqui Sterling silver intarsia inlay Kachina pendant/necklace. Circa last quarter of the 20th century with no apparent issues. Tested and guaranteed solid sterling silver with weight and measurements in pictures. Turquoise, sugilite and many other high grade stones. This necklace though not signed by the artist was made by him. I have a gold one of similar construction from the same collection holding a Michael Horse gold pendant. Michael Horse, of Yaqui, Mescalero Apache, Zuni, European and Hispanic descent, was born Michael Heinrich Horse in a place he calls “near Tucson”. He moved to Los Angeles,“the biggest urban Indian community in the U.S.,” when he was ten. There, Navajo, Cheyenne, and Sioux families surrounded him. He participated in the ceremonial dances at intertribal powwows from an early age. Not surprisingly, given his network of resources and diverse tribal bonds, Horse turned out to be a “polymath”, mastering several traditional artistic disciplines. He learned jewelry-making from his uncles. His mother trained him in the flat style of painting promoted by Dorothy Dunn at the Santa Fe Indian School. She was also a potter and a kachina carver. As a young man, he studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe with the painter Fritz Scholder, the stone sculptor Allen Houser, and the potter-turned-jewelry-maker Charles Loloma. Horse built a successful career as a sculptor and jewelry-maker himself, working the fairs, markets, and Native American arts festivals. Michael learned how to make jewelry from family and other native artists who were kind enough to teach him. He had seen jewelry being made from the time he was a child. He says, “In my early silversmith career, I liked to make larger pieces, large silver bolos, horse bridals, and actual handmade silver sculptures. Someday, I hope to have time to go back and reexamine these pieces and do similar work again.” “As long as I have been doing this,” Michael says, “I still never run out of inspiration or innovation in what can be done with this art form. Nature and spirituality are constant influences in my work. I am also inspired by non-Native artists such as Picasso and Michaelangelo, and I am inspired deeply by political artists, those who use their work to inspire others such as Diego Rivera.” “I’m finding now that from my travel among other native cultures that I am starting to use images that I did not grow up with. I am inspired by other tribal artists. From the plains to South America to Africa, I’m finding that there are similar patterns among indigenous people around the world and that it is indeed a very small place. It is a place with similarities among us indigenous people that don’t seem to be accidental. Michael had always been moved by the older kachina jewelry that had been made in the 1940s. These older pieces have inspired him to make amazingly detailed kachina bolos, earrings, and pendants. During the Southwest Museum’s 20 year retrospective of his work, he realized that had not taken many photos of his work over his career. He had to try to round up pieces from collectors for the show. Upon seeing the body of his work, he realized the subtle changes it was going through as the years passed. He was also surprised to realize that some of his early work was as interesting as his new work. “I go back and forth in my work, from the traditional to the contemporary, and I learn on this journey how the both are connected. One of the most rewarding aspects of being a jeweler is when I meet someone for the first time who owns a piece of my art, and they tell me how much they enjoy it and how many compliments they receive when they wear it. To me, that is a feeling like no other.” Then, Horse made a discovery that shifted his orientation as an artist: ledger art. “I have always been into arts. The acting was something that I had an opportunity to do. Art is my passion; it‘s my life. I grew up doing jewelry. I used to work for the Heye Foundation at the Museum of the American Indian in New York and when no one was looking I used to go sneak and look at stuff. That was where I first found this tribal art, the ledger art that I do. I was fascinated that first time I saw it and thought this is my history. Even though this was a plains style I knew that this was the way that all of us had recorded our history at one time. I used to just do this because I was a fan of the art form but now I am pretty much an authority on this art form. The last few years of doing this I thought to myself wherever you physically and culturally repressed people, this art exists. I am trying to put together an exhibition for the Smithsonian about the artwork that comes out of internment camps. The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles has a lot of drawings, similar to the ledger art, from the concentration camps. Similar works also exist from times of slavery in the South, on Angel Island, and now from Darfur. In this country, the name itself hints at the history of this art form, which originated in the 1800s. Plains Indians, confined to reservations and deprived of the animal hides that served as supports for traditional painting, continued to make paintings using whatever materials they could find. Discarded sheets from the ledger books in which the white men kept track of their accounts were in abundant supply. These pages served as surfaces on which to preserve traditional stories and record contemporary events. As a painter Michael Horse has brought reinvigorated inspiration to the traditional Native American style of “ledger art.” In the reservation era, as the practice of painting on buffalo hides became impossible, any “canvas” readily available took its place with various scrap papers such as book pages, old letters, maps and ledger books becoming background for visual recollections of heroic battles, scenes of ceremony, hunting and daily life. Newer implements such as crayons, colored pencils and water-colors allowed for a new breadth of detail. This traditional folk art was very free-flowing, Michael Horse points out, incorporating symbols and movement, almost like a film scene with images leading right off the pages in a very uncontained style. Having had the opportunity to see many of the old, original ledger drawings through his work with museums, Michael Horse explains its pull on him: “I knew this was my history book, coming from my point of view.” Moved by the creativity and resourcefulness of his ancestors under such oppressive conditions, Horse undertook to reconceive ledger art as a contemporary genre. He continues to work in silver and stone, but his study of ledger art and output in the genre has made him a leading figure the field of contemporary painting and a source of inspiration for other artists and cultural producers. “I don’t copy,” he clarifies, “or imitate traditional material.” Rather he employs a traditional formal vocabulary to speak about the past in the present tense and shed light on cultural continuities. He tracks down old documents to use as canvases: maps, marriage certificates, pages from ledgers and hymnals. He outlines his figures in black against this background and fills in the outlined forms with bright planes of color. A rider gallops astride a green horse amidst a herd of buffalo. Warriors charge into battle. Clans gather to celebrate a feast day. The figures are stylized and iconic. The dynamic compositions have an uneasy relationship to the page, as if resisting containment within its bounds. Man and beast are inscribed against a ground signifying extinction and interment — but they are light, swift, full of vitality. Many of the paintings bear biting titles: We Are Still Here, Don’t Take My Picture, This Land Is Your Land. He is very proud of the paths that Native art have taken, as well as the path that it is moving toward with younger artists. He himself was inspired by some of his peers, and hopes that someday younger people might learn from and be inspired by some of his work. A true modern day renaissance man, Michael is a jeweler, actor, stunt man, sculptor, painter and activist. As an actor, he has appeared in many movies and on television, including Twin Peaks, Passenger 57, Lakota Woman, and the CBC Canadian series, North of 60. His works of art have been shown in galleries throughout the world, and are currently available at the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, the Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles, the Eiteljorg Museum in Indiana, Kiva Fine Art Gallery in Santa Fe, and Gathe Tribes Gallery in Albany, California. He says that, “If somebody asked me how I would like to end my career, I would say I would like it to end with inspiring younger artists. I’m very interested in our youth. In the last few years, I’ve become involved with working with inner city and rural native youth, hoping that I might be able to steer them toward a more positive and creative path.”

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Michael Horse-Yaqui Indicolite Tourmaline, diamond, 14k gold kachina pendant necklace. Circa last quarter of the 20th century with no apparent issues. Tested and guaranteed solid 14k gold with weight and measurements in pictures. Natural Indicolite Tourmaline, natural diamond. 20" long necklace Michael Horse, of Yaqui, Mescalero Apache, Zuni, European and Hispanic descent, was born Michael Heinrich Horse in a place he calls “near Tucson”. He moved to Los Angeles,“the biggest urban Indian community in the U.S.,” when he was ten. There, Navajo, Cheyenne, and Sioux families surrounded him. He participated in the ceremonial dances at intertribal powwows from an early age. Not surprisingly, given his network of resources and diverse tribal bonds, Horse turned out to be a “polymath”, mastering several traditional artistic disciplines. He learned jewelry-making from his uncles. His mother trained him in the flat style of painting promoted by Dorothy Dunn at the Santa Fe Indian School. She was also a potter and a kachina carver. As a young man, he studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe with the painter Fritz Scholder, the stone sculptor Allen Houser, and the potter-turned-jewelry-maker Charles Loloma. Horse built a successful career as a sculptor and jewelry-maker himself, working the fairs, markets, and Native American arts festivals. Michael learned how to make jewelry from family and other native artists who were kind enough to teach him. He had seen jewelry being made from the time he was a child. He says, “In my early silversmith career, I liked to make larger pieces, large silver bolos, horse bridals, and actual handmade silver sculptures. Someday, I hope to have time to go back and reexamine these pieces and do similar work again.” “As long as I have been doing this,” Michael says, “I still never run out of inspiration or innovation in what can be done with this art form. Nature and spirituality are constant influences in my work. I am also inspired by non-Native artists such as Picasso and Michaelangelo, and I am inspired deeply by political artists, those who use their work to inspire others such as Diego Rivera.” “I’m finding now that from my travel among other native cultures that I am starting to use images that I did not grow up with. I am inspired by other tribal artists. From the plains to South America to Africa, I’m finding that there are similar patterns among indigenous people around the world and that it is indeed a very small place. It is a place with similarities among us indigenous people that don’t seem to be accidental. Michael had always been moved by the older kachina jewelry that had been made in the 1940s. These older pieces have inspired him to make amazingly detailed kachina bolos, earrings, and pendants. During the Southwest Museum’s 20 year retrospective of his work, he realized that had not taken many photos of his work over his career. He had to try to round up pieces from collectors for the show. Upon seeing the body of his work, he realized the subtle changes it was going through as the years passed. He was also surprised to realize that some of his early work was as interesting as his new work. “I go back and forth in my work, from the traditional to the contemporary, and I learn on this journey how the both are connected. One of the most rewarding aspects of being a jeweler is when I meet someone for the first time who owns a piece of my art, and they tell me how much they enjoy it and how many compliments they receive when they wear it. To me, that is a feeling like no other.” Then, Horse made a discovery that shifted his orientation as an artist: ledger art. “I have always been into arts. The acting was something that I had an opportunity to do. Art is my passion; it‘s my life. I grew up doing jewelry. I used to work for the Heye Foundation at the Museum of the American Indian in New York and when no one was looking I used to go sneak and look at stuff. That was where I first found this tribal art, the ledger art that I do. I was fascinated that first time I saw it and thought this is my history. Even though this was a plains style I knew that this was the way that all of us had recorded our history at one time. I used to just do this because I was a fan of the art form but now I am pretty much an authority on this art form. The last few years of doing this I thought to myself wherever you physically and culturally repressed people, this art exists. I am trying to put together an exhibition for the Smithsonian about the artwork that comes out of internment camps. The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles has a lot of drawings, similar to the ledger art, from the concentration camps. Similar works also exist from times of slavery in the South, on Angel Island, and now from Darfur. In this country, the name itself hints at the history of this art form, which originated in the 1800s. Plains Indians, confined to reservations and deprived of the animal hides that served as supports for traditional painting, continued to make paintings using whatever materials they could find. Discarded sheets from the ledger books in which the white men kept track of their accounts were in abundant supply. These pages served as surfaces on which to preserve traditional stories and record contemporary events. As a painter Michael Horse has brought reinvigorated inspiration to the traditional Native American style of “ledger art.” In the reservation era, as the practice of painting on buffalo hides became impossible, any “canvas” readily available took its place with various scrap papers such as book pages, old letters, maps and ledger books becoming background for visual recollections of heroic battles, scenes of ceremony, hunting and daily life. Newer implements such as crayons, colored pencils and water-colors allowed for a new breadth of detail. This traditional folk art was very free-flowing, Michael Horse points out, incorporating symbols and movement, almost like a film scene with images leading right off the pages in a very uncontained style. Having had the opportunity to see many of the old, original ledger drawings through his work with museums, Michael Horse explains its pull on him: “I knew this was my history book, coming from my point of view.” Moved by the creativity and resourcefulness of his ancestors under such oppressive conditions, Horse undertook to reconceive ledger art as a contemporary genre. He continues to work in silver and stone, but his study of ledger art and output in the genre has made him a leading figure the field of contemporary painting and a source of inspiration for other artists and cultural producers. “I don’t copy,” he clarifies, “or imitate traditional material.” Rather he employs a traditional formal vocabulary to speak about the past in the present tense and shed light on cultural continuities. He tracks down old documents to use as canvases: maps, marriage certificates, pages from ledgers and hymnals. He outlines his figures in black against this background and fills in the outlined forms with bright planes of color. A rider gallops astride a green horse amidst a herd of buffalo. Warriors charge into battle. Clans gather to celebrate a feast day. The figures are stylized and iconic. The dynamic compositions have an uneasy relationship to the page, as if resisting containment within its bounds. Man and beast are inscribed against a ground signifying extinction and interment — but they are light, swift, full of vitality. Many of the paintings bear biting titles: We Are Still Here, Don’t Take My Picture, This Land Is Your Land. He is very proud of the paths that Native art have taken, as well as the path that it is moving toward with younger artists. He himself was inspired by some of his peers, and hopes that someday younger people might learn from and be inspired by some of his work. A true modern day renaissance man, Michael is a jeweler, actor, stunt man, sculptor, painter and activist. As an actor, he has appeared in many movies and on television, including Twin Peaks, Passenger 57, Lakota Woman, and the CBC Canadian series, North of 60. His works of art have been shown in galleries throughout the world, and are currently available at the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, the Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles, the Eiteljorg Museum in Indiana, Kiva Fine Art Gallery in Santa Fe, and Gathe Tribes Gallery in Albany, California. He says that, “If somebody asked me how I would like to end my career, I would say I would like it to end with inspiring younger artists. I’m very interested in our youth. In the last few years, I’ve become involved with working with inner city and rural native youth, hoping that I might be able to steer them toward a more positive and creative path.”

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Michael Sockyma Hopi Overlay bolo tie sterling bear paw 43" long, weight and measurements in pics, solid sterling. Hopi artist Michael Sockyma Sr. Michael is from the Hopi village of Hotevilla. He learned the art of overlay at Hopicraft and later worked for them. He is a member of the Corn clan and his hallmark is a corn plant, often with his connected initials MS. He has won multiple awards for his outstanding overlay jewelry. Was born in 1942 and began his career in 1965.

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Mid Century Austrian Roulette wheel cufflinks. High quality cufflinks, I believe brass or gold filled, no damage. They each have functional roulette wheels with center knob that spins them..

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Mid Century Burmese art glass miniatures/toothpicks. Both the highest quality,<br>hand blown. Either Murano or Pairpoint. Tallest 2.5", both glow under<br>blacklight. These are both mid 20th century or older with no damage whatsoever,<br>no flaws.<br>toothpickdrawer

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I really don't try to talk things up very often, but this is a really nice<br>piece. This piece has a really nice patina all over front and back. It's never<br>been to an auction house or online ever. I really don't know whether it's from<br>the thirties or the sixties. I don't think it's 19th century. It's good quality<br>with a nice patina. It's the kind of piece that would stand out in any<br>environment and match at the same time. It's made out of no telling how many<br>thousands of wooden matches. You have to examine really closely to see any<br>traces of glue, I'm talking like 6". At that distance you can definitely tell<br>the wood and the glue are at least 50 years old. Everything about the back says<br>it's old. Old rope, old nails, slight old patinated rust. It'd be way more<br>trouble to fake this than it's worth. That's probably enough matches to give<br>three people cancer. It's extremely intricate, I've seen other matchstick stuff<br>that was like jailhouse stuff from the 70,'s. Nothing even close to this. All<br>the work that went into this, this guy would've had to have a life sentence. The<br>woods are really nice, the back board looks like balsa wood, I don't know if<br>this is African or American. I assume it would be one of the two, but really<br>know nothing about it other than it's old and has the name Damala on it and of<br>course that it's in Austin and freshly exposed. It measures 33.75" x 25 15/16 to<br>outside of frame. No damage to report, it's old and there's some minor wear on<br>the frame, but it's clean. I don't know if DAMALA is the artist or the person<br>being depicted.

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Mid Century French Enamel Abstract Trinket Dish. 3 3/8" x 2.75" with no damage whatsoever. Possibly a signature to the left in gold by the dress. Great vintage piece of impeccable quality.

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Mid Century Frigast Gilt Sterling Guilloche enamel demitasse/sugar spoon set. Selling the boxed set shown, possibly unused with no detectable wear or damage. (6) 3.75" demitasse spoons and one large 5.75" long sugar spoon. silverdrawer

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Mid Century Gem Silica sterling modernist cufflinks. Very attractive and rare stones. One swivels freely with no spring to catch it, one with back pointing in weird direction but appears to be made like that. Both solid sterling, unmarked

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Mid Century 835 Silver Modernist cufflinks. No issues. 16.4 grams.

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Mid Century Hector Aguilar Taxco 940 silver bracelet. Fits up to a 7" wrist, the<br>way it's made it naturally tapers with the wrist 1.25" wide, 58.1 grams with no<br>issues.<br><br>Who was silversmith Hector Aguilar?<br>Hector Aguilar was a master silversmith, jewelry maker, and the first graduate<br>from William Spratling’s famous apprenticeships in Taxco, Mexico. He met<br>Spratling almost by chance while bringing a load of tourists to Taxco from<br>Mexico City in the 1930s. Aguilar was one of Spratling’s best pupils, who often<br>worked with close-to-pure silver (rated at 980 instead of the 925 of sterling<br>silver on the silver scale). Aguilar was also a great businessman who only<br>stayed at Spratling’s workshop for three years before finding investors for his<br>own workshop, Taller Borda.<br><br>Aguilar’s Taller Borda became a huge success in 1943, when they secured a<br>contract with an American jewelry company, Coro. They produced several notable<br>designs for Coro throughout the 1940s. Hector kept Taller Borda running until<br>1966 when he closed up shop and enjoyed a nearly 20-year retirement, his place<br>in the firmament of great Mexican silversmiths already secured.<br><br>What kind of art did Hector Aguilar make?<br>Hector Aguilar was a silversmith, jewelry designer, and artist whose work helped<br>popularize Mexican silver in the 1940s and 1950s. His workshop’s pieces for the<br>retailer, Coro were instrumental in this endeavor. That relationship lasted<br>nearly a decade and produced some of Aguilar’s most vital work. As with most of<br>the Mexican silversmiths from this time, these designs were heavily inspired by<br>pre-Columbian artifacts and the folk art of Mesoamerica. Aguilar’s work<br>continued to innovate over the next several decades, bolstered the quality of<br>his pieces, which often used much more pure silver than his competitors. These<br>days Aguilar’s jewelry is highly sought after for his mastery of the craft of<br>silversmithing as well as its extremely high silver rating.<br><br>How did silversmith Hector Aguilar get started?<br>Hector Aguilar was born in 1905 in Mexico City. Not much is known of his early<br>years, but a chance encounter with William Spratling in the early 1930s set him<br>on a silversmithing career that would span three decades. Aguilar brought<br>tourists from Mexico City to the small town of Taxco, a place that as fate would<br>have it also was where Spratling was starting his silver workshop. Aguilar<br>worked for several years as the shop manager for Spratling while also becoming<br>an apprentice silversmith. After three years, Aguilar left to start his own<br>workshop, Taller Borda. That workshop would create countless beautiful pieces,<br>with unceasing quality up until its closure in 1966.

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Mid Century Italian Murano Glass Ducks Sun colored amethyst 13.5" tall with no damage or wear. One red, one blue, a good old set. Definitely Murano, unsure of the company/artist. Estate fresh and they were in a window with tons of dust around where they were sitting. I'm 95% sure they were originally clear one with blue the other red highlights and they clear part turned purple from prolonged exposure to UV light from the sun. This happens when glass has Manganese in it. I realize this black background doesn't highlight the beautiful purple but I just didn't have time to change the background. Selling the pair shown. issshelf

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Mid Century Japanese Sterling Crystal Star screw back earrings. Very cool pair of earrings Highest quality what I assume to be crystal rather than stone. 7/8" wide possible minute wear to a few of the tips. No large chips, no other issues.

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Mid Century Korean Brass wall plates. Really great, largest 11.5". No bends or dents, no surprises. I had to cut the pics down due to the files being too large and not having time for new pics. All three stamped Korea in small letters on reverse side. Selling all three. b3

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Mid Century Los Ballesteros Secret compartment Chrysocolla and sterling pendant<br>3" tall x 2 1/8" wide with no issues. Really cool, the secret door snaps shut<br>very tightly to the point of possibly being waterproof. 38.4 grams.

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Mid Century Margot De Taxco Sterling silver pin. No damage or significant wear,<br>1.5" x 1.75" x 8.9 grams. -Anderas-<br><br>Margot Van Voorhies was born in 1896 in San Francisco, California. By the time<br>she left her native country for good, she had survived the death of her father<br>in 1903, the San Francisco Earthquake in 1906, the loss of her mother at the<br>hands of a er in 1931 and the end of her first marriage in 1936.<br><br>Fortunately, a Mexican vacation changed the life of Margot Van Voorhies in ways<br>she could never have imagined. In 1937, forty-one-year-old divorcée Margot Van<br>Voorhies left San Francisco on a trip to Mexico City. Fate threw her into the<br>path of Don Antonio Castillo, who took her to Taxco, a Mexican hotbed for the<br>design, crafting, and production of silver objects, in particular jewelry and<br>housewares.<br><br>Soon, Castillo would become Margot’s second husband. At the time, Castillo was<br>working for William Spratling, a pioneer in Mexican silversmithing. He brought<br>Margot into the business as a designer, helping her to transform her paper<br>creations into three-dimensional forms in silver. In 1939, the pair, along with<br>other members of Castillo’s family, opened shop as Los Castillo Taller [Taller<br>is Spanish for “Workshop”], with Margot as the top designer.<br><br>After ten years, the marriage between Castillo and Van Voorhies dissolved, as<br>did their professional association. Margot went on to open her own shop in 1948,<br>taking the name Margot de Taxco, by which she is best known today. Seven years<br>later, enamel was added to many of her pieces, and this is where Margot found<br>her legacy.<br><br>At the peak of her career, Margot, who designed each piece herself, had two<br>dozen silversmiths and a dozen enamellists in her employ to execute her vision.<br>The men performed the duties as silversmiths; the women did the enamel work,<br>using tiny brushes to bring the watercolor drawings to life. To ensure the<br>accurate rendering of her jewelry designs, she compiled a book of instructions<br>and drawings, detailing the construction and finishing of each. Margot attracted<br>talented craftsmen who later went on to cement their own reputations, such as<br>Sigi Pineda, Miguel Melendez, and Melecio Rodriguez.<br><br>Many contemporary Hollywood celebrities were clients of Margot, including John<br>Wayne and Lana Turner, who visited her shop every year.<br><br>Tragedy struck in the form of a fire in 1960. Forced to move her studio, she<br>never again regained her prior success, and the business folded in 1974. Margot<br>granted several of the silversmiths in her employ permission to use her molds to<br>create pieces on their own, in return for debt forgiveness. As a result, many of<br>Margot’s pieces were re-created by silversmiths such as Jaimie Quiroz and<br>Geronimo Fuentes, bearing their hallmark rather than hers.<br><br>Margot passed away in 1985. But her talent as a designer and her influence as an<br>artist have continued to gain recognition since the time of her death.<br><br>Margot’s shop produced some repousse silver (a technique where a raised or<br>relief design is hammered in from the reverse side of the piece). But she is<br>best known for her champlevé enamel work. Champlevé is created by carving,<br>etching, striking, or casting troughs or cells into the surface of a piece and<br>filling it with vitreous enamel. In Margot’s jewelry, the designs were<br>die-struck, a process that was detailed and critical to the final product.<br><br>Margot produced many suites that included necklaces, brooches, bracelets, and<br>earrings, as well as convertible jewelry. Margot de Taxco jewelry is recognized<br>for its elegance, femininity, and variety.<br><br>There were many areas of influence that can be found in Margot’s work. Her fish<br>and wave motifs celebrated her love of Japanese art. The ornate swirls and<br>floral motifs were reminiscent of the Art Nouveau style. Mischievous<br>pre-Columbian figures were a recurring theme. Art Deco style ballerinas struck<br>graceful poses. Margot was also taken with Egyptian motifs and Mexican crafts.<br><br>Margot de Taxco pieces are distinguished by the stamp that includes her name,<br>Eagle 16 (or Eagle 1, for her earlier works), along with a production number.<br>Issued by the government, the eagle stamp was a way to identify th

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Mid Century Meka Danish Sterling cobalt enamel Master salt and spoon set. Selling the set shown with no apparent damage, measurements shown..

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Mid century Mikimoto Pearl/silver screw back earrings. Great vintage condition with no issues. 1 1/16" tall 7.5 grams.

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Mid Century Modern Carved Wood Lacquered Bowl. 10 3/8" wide, old tag on back says it was a gift from someone when they were in Japan, likely after ww2. Doesn't look very Japaneezy though. It's wood, it's hand carved, has some good age on it like at least 50 years and it's in good condition. TW131

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Mid Century Modern Marquetry plaque with Kings holding goblets. This is really fabulous, estate fresh period MCM from the 60's or 70's. Likely one of a kind, no identifying marks that I could find. One small blemish in queen to the right's neck, looks like an adams apple. 21.75" x 12.75"I'm fairly confident this was originally a drink tray due to the size/subject matter. But judging from the patina of the hooks and wire on the back in the 70's or even 60's they decided they wanted to look at it rather than spill drinks all over it. And while there are trays from this era with a more intricate design this is by far the coolest one I've seen.This is showing up really orange on my other monitor, It's not orange, it's "regular" wood colors. More typical colors, not pumpkin orange.

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Mid century modern sterling cufflinks. They appear either Scandinavian or Native<br>American :). They are really cool, circa mid 20th century, each marked sterling<br>inside bars. Selling the pair shown

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Mid Century Modern Taxco Mixed Metals and Chip inlay cufflinks. A great amount<br>of time was invested in creating these unique pieces. It is a very interesting<br>composition all hand made, one you must have in your collection. The clips are<br>in excellent working condition. Each one measures: 1 X 1 in . They are fully<br>marked as follows: CP, STERLING , 925, TAXCO , MEX,<br><br>No damage or issues, as clean as they come.

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Mid Century Modernist Los Ballesteros Sterling and Cat's Eye bracelet. Very cool<br>bracelet from the third quarter of the 20th century with no issues or detectable<br>wear.<br><br><br>All precious metals are tested and guaranteed, any Native American jewelry<br>referred to as Silver or Sterling is guaranteed to be a minimum of 90% (coin)<br>silver and possibly higher content. Anything marked is guaranteed to be what<br>it's marked, most bracelets are photographed on a 6" wrist (non hairy), rings<br>photographed on the appropriate sized finger when possible.

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Mid Century Modernist Los Ballesteros Sterling and Onyx bracelet. Very cool<br>bracelet from the third quarter of the 20th century with almost no issues or<br>detectable wear. One very small "chigger bite" on the outside rim of one of the<br>stones, not noticeable whatsoever.<br><br><br>All precious metals are tested and guaranteed, any Native American jewelry<br>referred to as Silver or Sterling is guaranteed to be a minimum of 90% (coin)<br>silver and possibly higher content. Anything marked is guaranteed to be what<br>it's marked, most bracelets are photographed on a 6" wrist (non hairy), rings<br>photographed on the appropriate sized finger when possible.

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Mid Century Modernist Los Ballesteros Sterling and Onyx pin. No damage.All precious metals are tested and guaranteed, any Native American jewelry<br>referred to as Silver or Sterling is guaranteed to be a minimum of 90% (coin)<br>silver and possibly higher content. Anything marked is guaranteed to be what<br>it's marked, most bracelets are photographed on a 6" wrist (non hairy), rings<br>photographed on the appropriate sized finger when possible.

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