5″ Paulino Aguilar Silver Engraved Spade Bit

Here is a great example of the work of modern bit maker Paulino Aguilar. Aguilar first worked with his father, then mentored with Raphael Gutierrez, carrying on his unique engraving style into his own work but with his own flare. After working with Gutierrez, Aguilar workshop built pieces for several brands including Les Garcia, Diablo Manufacturing, Fleming, BC-Mex, ect. This 5” Santa Barbara cheek spade is finely engraved as typical of Aguilar’s work, with engraved sterling silver all down the shanks and slobber bar, with raised silver dots on the side of the shank, in a round floral concho shape. On antiqued brown metal, with Alligator style spade mouth, with engraving work carried through on the copper spade. Copper wrapped brace, straight mouth bar, copper inlays on the mouth, and free rolling copper Cricket.  It is marked inside “Paulino Aguilar Since 1954”. 5” mouth, 8” shanks, 3.5” from top of spade to bottom of mouth bar. In hardly used condition. Has spent most of its life apart of a collection, and has been apart of ours. It’s time to offer this stunning piece to you—we can’t hoard all of them!