Specialties

• The Ballesteros had been silversmiths for generations in Guerreo.
• Jalil Majul Ballesteros was trained by his Grandfather and godfather in Iguala.

1937

• Jalil started a small family operation.
• Produced filigree in the Iguala style.

1941

• Switched to the style of the other Taxco silversmiths and stopped making filigree.

1950s

• Began a commercial expansion selling to tourists in their own shops in Mexico City, Acapulco, Puebla and Cuernavaca.
• Work was farmed out ot small family workshops in Taxco. Tools, model and silver were provided and items were signed Talleres de los Ballesteros.
• Tourist Shops Throughout Mexico.