Specialties

• Silversmiths
• Designers

Founder

• Don Antonio (Tony) Castillo de Teràán
• Brothers trained in the Spratling shop.

Early designs

• Based on Spanish Colonial ornaments.

• Scrolls

• Flourishes
• Fish
• Flowers
• Feathers

Later

• Ancient pre-Hispanic motifs and techniques.
• Turquoise, malachite, chrysoprase and abalone shell inlay and mosaic.
• Developed techniques in mixed metals called metales casados.

1953

• First Prize at the Silver Fiesta for their mixed metals.