Vintage Art Deco machine age gold tone and jade green glass bead fringe necklace, beautiful workmanship, possible Jakob Bengel

Vintage Art Deco 1930s gold tone and green glass bead fringe necklace. This necklace is in gold tone with beautifully shaped machine age links - I love the engineering that went into this piece. The necklace looks identical worn either way around - the front is identical to the reverse. I believe it could have been made in the Jakob Bengel factory, but I don't know the piece's provenance as yet. The way the chain links consist of one symmetrical pieces which is then folded into a double-sided link is characteristic of one Bengel design technique.

This necklace has a choker length of about 15 inches and it fastens with a secure spring ring clasp. It is a fabulous quality necklace and it is in very good vintage condition.

Jakob Bengel was a chain and costume jewellery factory, founded by Jakob Bengel in 1873 in Idar-Oberstein, Germany. Until 1920, the company specialised in the production of watch chains and chatelaines (pendants for pocket watches). In the 1920s and 1930s, it became one of the leading manufacturers of fashion jewellery in the Art Deco style. It was during the Bauhaus and Art Deco period that designers were looking to obtain new materials and inspiration to produce costume jewellery. Inspired by French Avant Garde and other fashion trendsetters such as Coco Chanel, Bengel started to produce experimental jewellery. The pieces, catalogued 1924-1939, combined brass and chrome with geometric shapes of coloured galalith.