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
An ode to Mexico’s ancient crafts this “tribal” necklace wrought in sterling silver with bone links and agate beads bears the signature of Reveriano (Reveri) Castillo. Though the Castillos did, on occasion, incorporate Aztec and Maya artifacts and beads in their jewelry, I believe that here the materials used are contemporary to the designer but brought together is such a way as to evoke ancient types of personal adornment. Everything here is hand-made, with the help of the most rudimentary equipment. And still, the azur-malachite is so seamlessly laid into the bone, the stone looks as if it has always been an integral part of those links…
Size / Weight: 17” long (wearable); beads approx, 5/8” in diameter; bone links approx. 1 1/2” in length; 64.3 grams
Hallmarks / Date: Reveri’s initials as shown as well as “STERLING TAXCO” and “MEXICO”; pre-1948
Condition: excellent vintage with the most amazing patina in the silver beads, seamless, perfect inlay in the bone links, with no damage and no repairs noted - a quite unusual, primordial necklace by one of Taxco’s best first period maestros
Inv# 15513
An ode to Mexico’s ancient crafts this “tribal” necklace wrought in sterling silver with bone links and agate beads bears the signature of Reveriano (Reveri) Castillo. Though the Castillos did, on occasion, incorporate Aztec and Maya artifacts and beads in their jewelry, I believe that here the materials used are contemporary to the designer but brought together is such a way as to evoke ancient types of personal adornment. Everything here is hand-made, with the help of the most rudimentary equipment. And still, the azur-malachite is so seamlessly laid into the bone, the stone looks as if it has always been an integral part of those links…
Size / Weight: 17” long (wearable); beads approx, 5/8” in diameter; bone links approx. 1 1/2” in length; 64.3 grams
Hallmarks / Date: Reveri’s initials as shown as well as “STERLING TAXCO” and “MEXICO”; pre-1948
Condition: excellent vintage with the most amazing patina in the silver beads, seamless, perfect inlay in the bone links, with no damage and no repairs noted - a quite unusual, primordial necklace by one of Taxco’s best first period maestros
Inv# 15513
