Vintage Jakob Bengel Art Deco machine age, beautiful blue (almost teal) galalith ball and chrome silver tone abstract long brooch

Lovely vintage Art Deco brooch by Jakob Bengel, made in the 1920s or perhaps into the early 1930s. This piece is beautifully engineered out of a blue colour galalith (type of early plastic similar to bakelite) ball and beautiful shiny chrome. I love this simple and elegant design.

The blue galalith piece is a particularly lovely colour which is quite hard to describe - it is almost teal and looks green in some lights.

The brooch is a large inches in length and is in very good vintage condition. Please examine all photos very carefully - it is about 100 years old, so it will have minor signs of wear.

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.