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Taxco Sterling Silver, Red/White Enamel and Abalone Inlay Bracelet - A Main Ballroom Altar Find - The Voodoo Estate
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Product Description
Taxco Sterling Silver, Red and White Enamel with Abalone Inlay Bracelet
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This is another of our very long listings with an abundant text and 8 photographs, so please take your time and read the listing through.
If you have come this far, we feel you will find it was worth the wait.
Twenty-four and a half years have now passed since we were called to do the estate that had been closed up for seventeen years!
The Voodoo Estate!
Some Back Story
Found on the Main Altar in the Main Ballroom, which was the largest if not the most ornate of all the altars in this estate. It was here in the Main Ballroom that the large ceremonial gatherings took place.
There is no inventory or journal mention of this bracelet that we have been able to cross reference and attribute. This is not unusual as our own attempts at inventory, identification and attributing the items found at this altar has proven to be a monumental task. There were piles of items that had apparently been tossed at altar and left to accumulate over the years. We literally had to shovel them up in some areas to cart them out of there. Most of these items have gone unattributed due to lack of mention in her journals and inventories.
We believe the bracelet was most likely worn to the altar by a visiting practitioner and was left as an offering, as indicated by those that we have been able to attribute.
The Guest Book to this altar room has thousands of entries which read like a who's who of metaphysical practitioners, dating back to 1910 with a total of 6842 from 1979 to the ninety days following her death.
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The Bracelet
The bracelet is marked with well worn 925 and a Taxco Mexico hallmark that is no longer discernible from wear.
It tests as .925 Sterling Silver Standard and measures approximately 2 5/*' x 2 1/8" x 9/16" and weighs 15.8 grams.
It will fit up to a 6.25" wrist.
We have encountered similar pieces of jewelry that were obviously the work of the same maker, all of which have had the same worn Taxco maker's mark. This,along with it's Native American design leads us to believe it is actually a piece made in the Philippines and marketed throughout the Southwest and Taxco tourist outlets as genuine.
During the 1960's and 1970's there was an explosion in the demand for Native American jewelry that outpaced the supply and unscrupulous entrepreneur's formed manufacturing and distribution networks that flooded the world with copied jewelry mostly made in the Philippines but some were made in domestic sweat shops.
The bracelet could use a cleaning and is in otherwise excellent overall condition with no signs of damage or repair.
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And that my friends ends the write-up for what is certainly a nicely aged vintage bracelet with an extraordinary provenance that is much nicer than our photographer has been able to depict.
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We have been contacted and visited by a number of people who were interested in the items from this estate since our first batch was listed. Among the buyers have been known psychics and practitioners. More than one, after adorning themselves or handling their purchase, stated "this is a woman of power!" Many of our customers, after receiving items from this estate have reported dream contacts and other unexplained phenomenon.
Unusual, authentic Voodoo Priestess Estate piece and at a bargain price!
This is truly a rare opportunity to own anything with attributes to this estate. The majority of this estate is now gone. Most of what we had left, and it was considerable, has been split up and sold to a couple of private, foreign collector practitioners and will never be available to the public again. We made the decision to do this as we have had some pretty strange visits from even stranger individuals and there have been enough unexplained phenomenon going on in the warehouse where her things were kept that many of our employees refused to go in there.
The pieces offered and sold here are some of the few remaining pieces that will ever be offered to the public.
Nice addition to any collection, wardrobe, altar, or decor, displays really well.
Really doesn't get any better than this.
There are 8 photographs below to tell the rest of this tale and we hope you enjoyed the listing.
Buyer to pay $0.00 for Insured USPS Ground Advantage (Scenic Route) Mail with Unreliable Tracking and our own extraordinary handling with lagniappe.
Rest assured your order will be carefully packed to withstand the onslaught of the most deranged of Postal Workers.
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