Vintage Jakob Bengel brickwork / mauerwerk gold tone screw back earrings Art Deco 1930s machine age

Vintage Jakob Bengel brickwork screw back earrings from the 1930s. The brickwork technique is a classic design for Bengel's jewellery - here employed in beautiful diamond shaped dangle earrings. The earrings are in very good vintage condition - the gold tone surface is in good condition. Photo 5 shows the the reverse of the earrings.

These are the same as a pair I sold to the production company for the 2022 Agatha Christie film Death on the Nile, directed by Kenneth Branagh. The final picture shows actor Annette Bening wearing the earrings in the movie! The last pictures show the earrings with the matching brickwork necklace I also have in stock.

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.