Screw backs, red-gold gilt metal, metal links textured like brickwork.

Design and Manufacture: Jakob Bengel, Idar-Oberstein, Deutschland, 1935/40.
Measure: Length of the supporter 1,5 inch (3,8 cm).

The “brickwork” is composed of flat solid rather than meshwork links which are interlinked in such a way that a “brick” effect is created. It belongs to the early designs for costume-jewelry.

When the „Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes“ in Paris 1925 presented costume jewelry and the legendary Coco Chanel made it until 1928 socially acceptable, it had long been the buzz-word. When in the beginning of the 1930s costume jewelry in the objective, cool „Bauhaus Style“ surfaced the marked, the fashion word was immediately enchanted.

However, an identification of the pieces was not possible then since not a single of these bore a maker´s mark or a firm stamp. After pattern books appeared some time ago in which the models or pattern designs for his unusual jewelry were displayed, it was no time at all before its origins were traced to Idar-Oberstein and specifically to the firm of Jakob Bengel. There jewelry revealed incredible creativity and a sensitive awareness of the Zeitgeist and the new woman who was emerging.

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Lit.: Cp. Ch. Weber: Art Dèco Schmuck – Jacob Bengel, Idar-Oberstein, Stuttgart 2002, S.100ff..