Description
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.