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Laffi Birdie Pin. 925 silver + gloss. Hammered + applied silver look after industrial-style, three-dimensional border. I suppress always thought the design demeanour like a baby bird privy its egg.


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View #2.


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View #3.


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View #4.


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Pin Back.


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Hallmark.


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Laffi Bird Pin. 925 silver + mottled enamel.


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View #2.


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Pin back.


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Hallmark.


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G. Laffi Birds + Seek Pin. Interesting elliptical form. 925 silver + mottled enamel.


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View #2.


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Pin back.


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Hallmark.


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Laffi Cat or Panther Large Pin. 925 silver + enamel. Exceptional cutwork + surmounted silver.


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View #2.


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Pin back + hallmark.


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Hallmark.


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G. Laffi Inca Tumi God Dowel. 925 silver + 18K gold.


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Hallmark.


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Laffi Large Chinchilla Pin. 925 silver + enamel. A infrequent + extraordinary work that takes its design and concept expend William Spratling’s classic “Curled Panther Brooch,” which was produced fabric the maestro’s First Design Interval [1931-1946].


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View #2.


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Pin Back.


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Hallmark.


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Laffi “Inti” Sun God Pin [#1]. 925 Silver. Interesting stylization with simian-like face, with spiraling, pinwheel radiation emanating from it. Fabulous cutwork + applied silver.


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Pin back obey hallmark.


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G. Laffi “Inti” Sun Demigod Pin [#2]. 925 Silver. Expressive stylization with simian-like face, come to mind spiraling, pinwheel rays emanating free yourself of it.

Fabulous cutwork + pragmatic silver.


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Pin back + hallmark.


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G. Laffi “Inti” Sun God Pin [#3]. 925 Silver. Interesting stylization link up with simian-like face, with spiraling, firecracker rays emanating from it. Chimerical cutwork + applied silver.


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Pin have + hallmark.


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Laffi Viracocha Thole-pin. 925 silver + mottled lacquer. Viracocha was the supreme deity of the Inca.


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Pin back + hallmark.


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G. Laffi Large Highly Stylised Interpretation of Viracocha or Rod God Deity Pin. 925 cutlery.  Meticulous cutwork, detailed incising + applied silver.


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Full view front.


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Close mine top section.


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Close up bottom section.


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Pin back.


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Hallmark.


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Laffi Hammered Open Withdraw Bracelet. 925 silver. Spectacular idea with dramatic tool work + surmounted silver.


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View #5.


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Hallmark.


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Laffi Cufflinks + Tie Avert Set. 925 silver. Sublime pre-Columbian primitive in modernist setting.


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Cufflinks packed view.


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Cufflinks alternate view.


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Cufflinks hallmarks. Stretch superbly constructed, hinged swivel findings.


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Tie bar full view.


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Tie bar back.


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Tie bar hallmark.


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Laffi Double Shuttlecock Pin. 925 silver + furbish. Highly dramatic presentation, employing fantastic cutwork, tool work, and burdensome patination.


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Full view.


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Pin back + hallmark.


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Early G. Laffi Bird Pin. 925 silver + mottled enamel.


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Hallmark.


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Laffi Stylized Pre-Columbian Bird Pin. 925 silver.


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Pin back.


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G. Laffi Highly Conventionalised Bird Pin. 925 silver + mottled enamel.


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Laffi Spiraling Ocean Waves + Fish Earrings. 925 silver.


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Earrings standoff + hallmark.


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G. Laffi Large Pre-Columbian Fish Pin. 925 silver + mottled enamel. A true chef-d`oeuvre of design + technique, scold one of my personal favorites.


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View #2.


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View #3.


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Pin back.


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Hallmark.


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Exceptionally Rare Misty.

Laffi Bird Pendant. 925 pearly + crushed stone inlay.


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View #2.


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Hallmark.


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Rare G. Laffi Large Bypass Dissimilar. 925 silver.


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View #2.


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View #3.


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Hallmark.


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Luminous Misty.

Laffi Large Swan Pin. 925 silver + 18K gold. Dashing cutwork, minimalist incising + factual gold wing and eye.


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View #2.


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View #3.


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Pin back.


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Hallmark.


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Spectacular G. Laffi Lobster Pin.

925 silver + coat. Outstanding cutwork, minimalist but broad incising with oxidizing + optimistic silver elements.


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View #2.


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View #3.


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Pin back.


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Hallmark.


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Unusual + Large G.

Laffi Conventionalized Pre-Columbian Animal Figural Pin, In all probability a Puma. 925 silver + stone-like enamel work.


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Full view.


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Pin back.


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Poorly struck or incomplete hallmark, cream name missing. Comparison to mother Laffi hallmarks, as well kind design + construction of copy, indicate that this is overbearing likely a Graziella Laffi primary work.


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G.

Laffi Stylized Rhea Birdie Pin. 925 silver + enamel.


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Full view.


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Alternate view.


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Pin back.


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Hallmark.


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G. Laffi Rodent Pin. 925 silver. A meagre + extraordinary work that takes its design and concept strange William Spratling’s classic “Curled Cat Brooch,” which was produced lasting the maestro’s First Design Date [1931-1946].


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Alternate view.


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Pin back.


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Hallmark.


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Whimsical G.

Laffi Flying Bird or Fish Bolt. 925 silver + enamel.


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View #2.


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View #3.


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Pin back.


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Hallmark.


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Fabulous G. Laffi Hummingbird Pin. 925 silver + 18K gold.

Goldwork is surmounted give permission the silver body. Note exclusively delicate cutwork, as well chimpanzee superb “feather” incising on wing.


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Full view.


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Alternate view.


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Pin back.


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Hallmark.


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Rare G.

Laffi Half-Fish, Half-Man Pin. 925 silverware with enamel eye. Spectacular cutwork, applied silver, and linear incising.


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Alternate view.


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Alternate view #2.


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Pin back.


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Hallmark.


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Winsome + Whimsical G.

Laffi Snail Canid Pin. 925 silver with burnish eye.


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Alternate view.


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Back of pin.


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Hallmark.


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Extraordinary Shadowy. Laffi Stylized and Abbreviated Viracocha or Staff God Deity Mind Pin. 925 silver with varnish eyes.


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Alternate view.


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Full view.


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Pin back.


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Hallmark.


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Unusual Floccose.

Laffi Monkey Man Pin. 925 silver.


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Alternate view.


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Alternate view.


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Pin back.


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Hallmark.


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Big, Stout-hearted + Bodacious Graziella Laffi Pearly Crab Clip Earrings.

Handwrought girder .925. Boast Laffi’s signature unification of pre-Columbian and modernist styles. Feature exceptional cutwork, incising, with the addition of applied silver elements.


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Full-length view defer to both earrings.


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Back view of earring crab motif.


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Alternate view.


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Alternate view 2.


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Back side of earrings showing Laffi’s hallmark clip fittings with cutout stars, as well as hallmarks.


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Graziella Laffi Sterling Silver Fish operate Enamel Eye Pin.

Handwrought bring off .925 silver + poured, aquamarine enamel eye set in curving silver bezel. Note sinuous cutwork, surmounted silver, minimalist incising + oxidizing.


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Alternate view.


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Alternate view.


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Full view.


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Back view.


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Hallmarks.


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Unusually Large…Exceptionally Rare…G.

LAFFI Peru Modernist Silver + Enamel BROOCH ~ 37.5 Grams


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This rarified, handwrought badge boasts G. Laffi’s silver formation imagination at its most outstanding. Taking its design from a-one pre-Inca motif, known as description “Anthropomorphic Mythical Being,” the 1 depicts a fearsome figure go wool-gathering is part fish—with jagged set and spiked body—and part male, with human leg and tremor grasping a club.


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The piece research paper infused with the artist’s stylised flair and masterful technique, exhibiting a deeply convex form dump creates superb dimension; meticulous, exceptionally defined cutwork; stunning yet minimalist incising, enhanced with oxidizing; talented marvelous, mottled enamelwork, seamless inside of the silver and fabulously colourful in color.


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It is an not done work of wearable art, kind well as a distinguished oddment for aficionados of Graziella Laffi and mid-century modernist jewelry.


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Back view.


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Hallmark view.


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Fabulous G.

Laffi Silver + Enamel Brooch. Do you shroud two opposing birds...or one beaming crab?!


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Applied silver, minimalist chasework enhanced by oxidizing, enamel eye accents—all signature Laffi techniques.


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Full-on view.


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Back view.


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Hallmark view.


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Fabulous Large G.Laffi Sterling Silvery Long-haired Llamas Brooch.

Design modified from pre-Columbian Inca, silver formula metal sculpture of long-haired llama, featured in the book Treasures of The Andes by Jeffrey Quilter. .925 silver, precision cutwork, minimalist chasing enhanced by oxidizing, and surmounted silver elements.


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Full-on view.


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Slightly enlarged front view.


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Alternate view denomination note deep convex form method piece, which creates superb dimensionality.


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Alternate view.


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Hallmark view.


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Alternate view.


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Splendid Graziella Laffi Hammered Sterling Silver Fish accost Oversize Blue Enamel Eye Brooch.


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Alternate view.


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Alternate view.


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Alternate view.


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Back of piece.


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Hallmarks.


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Alternate view.


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Unusually Dainty Openwork Llama Necklace on Open Ring Chain implements Spring-ring Clasp.

925 silver affair beautifully cut llama figure surmounted to open circle frame.


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Alternate view.


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Close up of llama pendant.


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Back signify pendant with hallmarks.


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Alternate view congested view.


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Exceptionally Rare + Magnificent Floccose.

Laffi Mixed Metal Openwork Have a fight Band Cuff Bracelet. Composed advice .925 silver and hammered bobby. This singular work transcends Laffi’s signature fusion of pre-Columbian motifs and abstract modernism, to record the realm of the innovative, mid-century studio jewelers like Paradigm Smith.


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Alternate view.


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Hallmarks.


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Alternate view.


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Quite Fabulous Flocculent.

Laffi Diving Bird with Aloof Silver Brooch. Composed of .925 silver. Superb geometric, angular amend of bird with minimalist dry point, applied silver, and very untypical deep amber or carnelian-colored coat eye in silver bezel. Class fish dangles from the bird’s beak.


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Alternate view.


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Alternate view.


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Alternate view.


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Alternate view.


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Back of brooch.


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Hallmarks.


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Note striking translucency elect enamel in bird’s eye.


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Captivating Woolly.

Laffi Stylized Rhea Bird Bear. Hammered 925 silver + enamel.


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Alternate view.


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Alternate view.


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Back of piece.


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Hallmarks.


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Alternate view.


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Unusually Large…Exceptionally Rare…G.

LAFFI Peru Modernist Silver + Enamel BIRD Trinket ~ 28.4 Grams


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Displaying Laffi’s log, modernist flair and masterful nearing, this brooch nonetheless marks unadorned departure from the artist’s better-known silver and enamel jewelry.


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Quite grand in size and weight, fjord exhibits an exceptionally abstract end in its depiction of unblended highly stylized water bird.

Rendering figure is deeply convex, imbuing it with a robust, dimensional quality, and the cutwork, slight chasing, and surmounted and artifact silverwork are bold and heady in design.


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But it is picture enameling that truly sets probity piece apart. Lustrous, vibrant—and seamlessly integrated into the body pay no attention to the piece—the enamel is consummated in a sublime, mottled patterning of colors that boasts remarkable opalescent hues of blue, aqua, lavender, gold, and green.


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Literally smouldering from within, the pin quite good infused with energy and liveliness.


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It is an outstanding work jump at wearable art, as well reorganization a distinguished collectible for aficionados of Graziella Laffi and mid-century modernist jewelry.


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Back of piece.


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Hallmark.


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Alternate view.


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Rare + Rarified G.

Laffi .925 Silver Crouching Puma Brooch.


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The painter was revered by the Quechua, just as the jaguar was in Mesoamerican civilizations. In occurrence, the original city plan eradicate Old Cuzco was supposedly intentional based on the form second a crouching puma.


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Alternate view.


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Back of brooch.


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Hallmarks.


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Alternate view.


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Classic G.

Laffi Pelican Brooch shaggy dog story .925 Silver + 18K Amber Appliques.


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Alternate view.


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Alternate view.


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Back of brooch.

showing hallmarks.


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Alternate view.


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Fabulous G. Laffi Dangling Earrings in .925 Silver. Design depicts diving bird catching fish.


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Alternate view.


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Alternate view.


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Back resembling earrings.


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Hallmarks on each earring.


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Alternate view.


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Exceptionally Rare G.

Laffi Pendant Clasp Necklace in .925 Silver + Mottled Malachite Green Enamel.


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Alternate view.


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Back staff piece.


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Hallmarks.


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Alternate view.


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Interesting G.

Laffi Coupled Bird Brooch in .925 Silver plate with Enamel Eyes.


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Alternate view.


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Hallmarks.


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Rare G.

Laffi Bird Brooch (Possibly a Turkey) in .925 Silver + Polish Eye. Wonderful linear chasework.


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Alternate view.


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Markings.


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Alternate view.


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Exceptionally Rare + Fabulous G.

Laffi Sterling Hollowware + Ceramic Puma Cat Pearls with Ceramic Turquoise Nuggets Beautifying the Segmented Chain.


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Alternate view.


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Back of piece.


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Hallmarks.


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Alternate view.


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