GUEST: My late husband purchased several items of silver jewelry for me over the years.

APPRAISER: Okay.

GUEST: And this particular one, he got for our wedding anniversary.

In fact, that's the only time I ever wore the earrings, because they're screw-ons and I was always afraid I'd lose one.

This one in particular is from Taxco, Mexico, and it's a Margot.

If that means anything, it is in the stamp inside.

APPRAISER: It is-- Margot de Taxco's full name was Margot Van Voorhies Carr.

Margot de Taxco was from San Francisco.

She had sadly had quite a bit of misfortune by the time she was 41.

And decided to take a vacation to Mexico, where she met Don Antonio Castillo, who brought her to Taxco, Mexico.

Don Antonio Castillo was working with William Spratling at the time.

This particular bracelet is by William Spratling.

William Spratling moves to Taxco, Mexico in 1931, and he really made Taxco sort of a hotbed for bon vivants and artists alike.

William Spratling worked largely in the pre-Columbian style and became, as an American, really the father of Mexican silver.

The marking on the inside is his first iteration of maker's mark between the years of 1933 and 1941.

This is one of his most iconic works, called the River of Life bracelet.

Margot de Taxco, of course, was tangentially working in the same sort of brain space as William Spratling in Taxco.

She did go on to divorce Castillo after ten years of working together.

And she set up her own firm and really was a woman before her time.

What I loved when I saw these two pieces together, is that in my mind, it's really sort of the mother and the father of Mexican silver in the 1930s in Taxco, Mexico.

They're beautiful pieces and I-- and-and very collectible.

And in an auction situation, the group is somewhere in the neighborhood of $3,000 to $5,000.

GUEST: All right, that's good to know.

APPRAISER: Yeah.

(both chuckle) GUEST: That's more than I thought it might be.