Huge Inca Copper / Silver Tupu Tunic Pin

**Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, Central Peru, Inca Empire, ca. 1200 to 1532 CE. A beautiful tunic pin known as a "tupu" composed of a copper alloy containing 8% silver. The needle-form bo

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Central Peru, Inca Empire, ca. 1200 to 1532 CE. A beautiful tunic pin known as a "tupu" composed of copper that has aged to have a pretty dark green patina. Th

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Peru, Inca Empire, ca. 1470 to 1532 CE. Wow! A gilded copper tupu of delightful form with a long, tapering pin surmounted by a discoid finial with a notched pe

**First Time At Auction** Peru, Chimu / Inca culture, Post Conquest to early Spanish Colonial Period, ca. 14th to 15th century CE. A high quality 89% to 96% silver tupu pin with a lengthy rod and open

4 Incan Mixed Metal Tupu Pins. Mixed metal amalgam possibly including: gold, silver and copper. Tupu is a Quechua term for pin. Women in the Andes typically used two tupus, their heads pointed downwar

Large flower brooch pin in a goldish copper wash finish over 925 Sterling Silver and accented with yellow orange Citrine stones. Huge and relatively heavy for its size. Completely handmade floral broo

Pre-Columbian, central Peru to northern Chile, ca. 1300 to 1500 CE. Tall and quite exceptional large drinking chalice made of a copper-silver alloy. Although showing a high concentration of copper, th

100% of the Buyer's Premium of all lots sold in this auction will be donated to Community Food Share by Artemis Gallery. $1.00 = 3 meals! **Originally Listed At $350** Pre-Columbian, North Coast Pe

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chimu culture, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A fantastic set of three Chimu artifacts; a figural vessel, a double-chamber vessel, and a pair of tupu pins. Presenting in a pale

Group of three pre-Columbian Peruvian artifacts. Comprised of one Moche copper tupu/pin, ca. 8th-16th c; one Chancay wood figure, ca. 1000-1470 CE; and one Chancay ceramic deer vessel, ca. 1000-1200 C

**Originally Listed At $150** South America, Bolivia, Post-Colonial Period, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. A silver tupu pin with glass beads and dangling coins, an Andean version of a brooch

DESCRIPTION: A collection of three Pre-Columbian Chimu peoples, copper Tupu pins. The first features a male figure with a right hand along his chest. The second features a figure standing with his leg

**Originally Listed At $4000** Pre-Columbian, central highlands of Peru, Inca culture, ca. 1350 to 1500 CE. A massive textile tunic composed of two broad camelid fiber panels that are dyed in an attra

Oversized silver (content unknown) tupu/ shawl pin, Central or South America, with repousse scroll and foliate motifs, unmarked, approx 24.75"l, 8"w, 302 grams Start Price: $100.00

19th c., a silver horse mounted on a square frame from which two coins hang (eight coins missing) total 10.5"h; mounted in wood block Tupu served as a pin to clo

**First Time At Auction** Near East or Central Asia, Bactria or Luristan culture, ca. 3000 to 1000 BCE. A gorgeous pin for a cloak or tunic, cast from copper with a lapis lazuli finial. The shaft tape

**First Time At Auction** South America, Bolivia, ca. early 20th century CE. A fantastical large cast copper tupu, or garment pin, in the form of a large sun above a crescent moon. An inlaid piece of

**Originally Listed At $150** Pre-Columbian, north-central Peru, Inca Empire, ca. 1470 to 1523 CE. A slender copper tupu covered in fine layers of gilding. The needle-form body has sturdy walls that t

Huge Silver Brooch Pin

Antique Huge Silver Brooch Pin, Size: 2.5", weight: 40g

(lot of 2) Silver (content unknown) tupu/ shawl pins, likely Andean region, South America, including: (1) bowl engraved with bird perched on flower, approx 16"l, (1) bowl engraved with bird, approx 7.

Two Antique Aymara Silver Tupu Shawl Pins, Bolivia. Provenance: Andres Moraga, San Francisco, CA. Sizes: 1)7.25'' x 1.5'' (18 x 4 cm); 2) 8.25'' x 1.5'' (21 x 4 cm). Total weight: 2 ozt. Ex. Cathryn C

Collection of contemporary art designer metal jewelrycomprised of one Julie Koebbe 1997 coarse sand, copper and silver pin-brooch; one Loveli Hamm sterling silver wire pendant, suspending from a 28" s

Collection of contemporary metal jewelry comprised of one Julie Koebbe 1997 coarse sand, copper and silver pin-brooch; one Loveli Hamm sterling silver wire pendant, suspending from a 28" sterling silv