More wonderful Sterling Silver from Taxco, Mexico. This neck wire is marked "TC-106", meaning the piece was made in Taxco after 1979 (when this marking system started) by a silversmith with a last name starting in "C". The number 106 means that the silversmith was the 106th person to register his mark with the city. It is also marked "ACS" which are the designers initials (Latinos often have 2 surnames, so the "C" denotes one and the "S" denotes the other. "A" is of course their first initial). I believe this is a contemporary piece made in the last 10 to 15 years.
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Thank you to the following website(s) for the historical content of this blog post:
925-1000. Retrieved 5/30/2011 from http://www.925-1000.com/mexican_marks.html#M
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