Vintage Jakob Bengel Art Deco machine age clamper bangle in shiny gold tone with a rich green galalith cylinder

Beautiful, simple Art Deco galalith clamper bangle bracelet. This bracelet design was produced in a variety of colours of galalith (early casein-based plastic) and in either gold tone, or silver tone chrome.

The bracelet is significant as both a jewellery adornment and collectable piece. Available here is one bracelet in gold tone with a beautiful rich, marbled green cylinder of galalith. 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.