Vintage Jakob Bengel Art Deco 1930s machine age necklace with chrome and brass interlocking rings, heavy piece

Vintage Art Deco chrone and brass ring link machine age necklace. This is a lovely heavy, substantial piece - it is more impressive in person and you can feel the quality when handling it.

This necklace sits around the neck or decolletage beautifully and styles like this can also be layered. The necklace fastens using a large screw bolt clasp and has a length of about 17 inches..

The necklace is in very good vintage condition. In some lights there can be seen in places a slight golden glow of the brass underneath the thin chrome plating on the very edges of the chrome links as it has thinned over the years.

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.