Dear Friends and Customers,
One Good Eye Silver is embarking on a big adventure as we prepare to move overseas. Though I am excited about our new beginning, I am also saddened for leaving after having spent almost thirty years in the US..
Until the move is completed, feel free to browse the site and email us with any questions you might have or to say “hi” but please do not try to purchase anything!
I am planning to re-configure the business and re-launch, from Europe this time, in the late Fall of 2024, if not earlier, and hope you will be patient and, once we are "live" again, honor us with your patronage.
Thank you very much for your trust all these years and for the thought-provoking conversations we have had - on jewelry, the history of personal adornment and life in general! See you again in a few months,
Margarita Poutouridou
One Good Eye Silver
Impressive in its generous width, with a gorgeous greenish blue turquoise bezel-set in its central station, this early Matilde Poulat silver bracelet is wrought en repoussage in the “Mexico City style“ she came to represent. Malt’s repousse work leaves the journey of the silversmith’s tools on the jewelry created intentionally visible and that for me brings her close to the philosophy of the Arts and Crafts movement. Yet she is also as “Mexican Deco” as anyone could ever be - her pieces are big, bold, daring, not for the faint of heart. Here the textured links, stylized representations of Quetzalocoatl’s scaly body, wrap themselves effortlessly around the wrist in a comfortable, serpentine embrace…
Size / Weight: 6 3/4” long (wearable) by 1 3/4” wide; 74.1 grams
Hallmarks / Date: “MATL” in raised letters as shown; 1930s-40s
Condition: excellent vintage with great patina, beautiful texture in the hand-hammered links and a stunning stone, with no damage or repairs that I can see; kindly note that there are seven links to this bracelet - three on one side of the turquoise station and four on the other - and I have taken this into consideration in my pricing
Inv# 15395
Impressive in its generous width, with a gorgeous greenish blue turquoise bezel-set in its central station, this early Matilde Poulat silver bracelet is wrought en repoussage in the “Mexico City style“ she came to represent. Malt’s repousse work leaves the journey of the silversmith’s tools on the jewelry created intentionally visible and that for me brings her close to the philosophy of the Arts and Crafts movement. Yet she is also as “Mexican Deco” as anyone could ever be - her pieces are big, bold, daring, not for the faint of heart. Here the textured links, stylized representations of Quetzalocoatl’s scaly body, wrap themselves effortlessly around the wrist in a comfortable, serpentine embrace…
Size / Weight: 6 3/4” long (wearable) by 1 3/4” wide; 74.1 grams
Hallmarks / Date: “MATL” in raised letters as shown; 1930s-40s
Condition: excellent vintage with great patina, beautiful texture in the hand-hammered links and a stunning stone, with no damage or repairs that I can see; kindly note that there are seven links to this bracelet - three on one side of the turquoise station and four on the other - and I have taken this into consideration in my pricing
Inv# 15395
