This pendant was made as a tie tack. Sometime after tie tacks went out of style, it was adapted so that it could be worn as a pendant. If someone wishes to have it converted back to a tie tack in the future, in can easily be done.

Antonio Pineda was one of the Masters of Taxco jewelry during the Art Renaissance that occurred there from the late 1930s through the 1970s. Antonio Pineda was born into an old Taxco, Mexico family in 1919. He attended the Open Air School and studied painting under Tamachi Kitagawa and David Alfaro Siquieros and sculpture with Martin Pineda. Pineda went on to apprentice with William Spratling to learn silversmithing and he ultimately opened his own workshop in 1941. Pineda gained international recognition in 1946 when he exhibited along with Margaret De Patta and Georg Jensen at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. Antonio Pineda silver designs remain popular today. 

The hallmarks on Antonio Pineda help us date the jewelry.