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Tony Aguilar Sr Oversized turquoise/brass barrel bead necklace/earrings. Authentic with no damage, with weight and measurements in the pictures. Each cone hallmarked, can be seen on the one picture with the blue tape measure. 29" long necklace.
Tony Aguilar Sr. (1919-2002) Santo Domingo(Kewa)
Tony Aguilar‘s life certainly influenced his jewelry. He was born in 1919 at Santo Domingo. From a family of jewelers including his own father and his uncle, Vidal Aragon, Tony Aguilar learned silversmithing from a Navajo jeweler while he attended the Santa Fe Indian School. The president of his class at the Indian School, Tony entered the United States Army during World War II. For 2 1/2 years, Tony Aguilar was stationed in the middle east, and while there he admired the heavy, ornate jewelry designs of Middle Eastern jewelry. Tony would return to the United States highly influenced by those jewelry designs. The resulting jewelry that Tony Aguilar created post World War II was often bold, big and brass with intricate stampwork and large natural turquoise stones. Tony‘s frequent use of brass was quite exceptional, for brass is actually very difficult to work with and very few jewelers can create brass jewelry that does the metal any justice. Tony Aguilar was one of the few who could. His brass work is some of the best around!
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