Vintage Los Castillo married metals Deco style necklace

Fans of vintage Mexican jewelry created with married metals (metales casados) will want to have a look at an usual Los Castillo necklace offered for sale by a Top-rated eBay seller:

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The following is taken from the seller’s description:

This beautiful necklace was all hand crafted. It is composed of twenty nine panels and the central piece. The central piece is made out of several small pieces. The upper part has a round carved green stone set in silver. It has a half silver dome in the front part where a triangular shaped piece is attached. This piece is made with the married metal technique and has several stripes made of brass, copper, silver and iron. From the lower part, nine large drop shaped pieces hung. This piece measures: 3 ¼ X 1 7/8 in. The panels are made of two wire silver circles which have soldered on each side a “U” shaped brass wire and a straight piece of copper wire is soldered in the middle of them. Each one measures: 5/8 X 3/8 in. sizes may slightly vary as all the pieces are handcrafted. All the panels are joined together by silver bands. The clasp is in perfect working condition and is of hook.

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