The Vintage Mexican Silver “Bible”

If you are just beginning to collect vintage Mexican silver, Bille Hougart’s The Little Book of Mexican Silver Trade and Hallmarks is the guide you want to help you identify your  Mexican silver.

The book contains images and graphics of over 1,500 marks of Taxco and Mexico silver makers, designers, manufacturers and silver houses. In it you’ll find the great names in Mexican silver, including William Spratling, Hector Aguilar, Los Castillo, Antonio Pineda, Sigi Pineda, Maricela, Salvador, Victoria, Fred Davis, Artemio Navarrete, Emma Melendez, Bernice Goodspeed, Maciel, Rancho Alegre, Matl, Margot de Taxco, and quite a few others. If you can only get one reference book, this is the one you want.

Want to know more about the book? You can have a look at it online through Google Book Search.  Just type in the title and in moments you’ll be previewing the book. The preview does not include the entire contents of the book, but certainly more than enough for you to decide if you want to acquire the book (and enough to look up some Mexican marks you might want to identify).

You may be able to find this book at your library, but it’s the kind of book that, if possible, you want to have in your possession!