Vintage Jakob Bengel Art Deco machine age green galalith, green glass and silver tone stacked disc bead geometric choker necklace

Beautifully delicate necklace from the 1930s which is likely to be from the Jakob Bengel factory. This design uses many of Bengel's characteristic component parts including chrome and green galalith disc beads, a stacked architectural Art Deco style and fancy machine age chains and links. There are also tubular chrome beads and very slim tubular green glass beads.

The necklace has a length of about 17 inches and fastens with a secure spring ring clasp. It is in good vintage condition - there is a little dulling to the silver tone so it is not quite as shiny chrome as once it was!

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.