Vintage Art Deco machine age, silver tone and green wood bead necklace - Jakob Bengel

Vintage Art Deco machine age silver tone and green wood bead necklace. There is lovely intricate chain work and each bead is enclosed in silver tone cup style bead guards. This is a gorgeous piece. A beautifully designed machine age Bauhaus style necklace which originates from the 1930s. It has features that are seen in Jakob Bengel's Art Deco jewellery and is likely to be a Bengel piece. Their pieces often featured wood and glass alongside the well know galalith pieces produced. The vintage condition is very good.

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.