Vintage Jakob Bengel Art Deco 1930s machine age collar necklace with early plastic transparent green circles, antique gold tone links

Vintage Art Deco early plastic ring 'bead' and antique gold tone machine age choker necklace. This is such an unusual piece - the chain links are clearly from the Jakob Bengel factory in Idar-Oberstein, but I have not seen this type of early plastic used often in their pieces. These choker / riviere type necklaces sit around the neck or decolletage beautifully and styles like this can be layered in the style of Anna Wintour.

The necklace fastens using a spring ring clasp and has a choker length of 16 inches.. The necklace is in very good vintage condition - amazing considering how delicate and old these plastic rings are.

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.