Jakob Bengel 1930s Necklace – SOLD

Jakob Bengel 1930s lovely french navy blue cold painted enamel brickwork necklace.  Bengel was famous for his chain linking designs and this is another beauty.  It is referred to as maerwerk (masonry) brickwork design, you will see many pictures of this design in either of the 2 Jakob Bengel books.

He used many different colours of enamel, red, light and dark green, light and dark blue and black, with the rarer more unusual colours being lime green, burnt orange and yellow. Very often they will have black with a colour to enhance the pattern.

The brickwork pattern comes in 2 styles one where the ‘brick’ is flat and this one where the brickwork panel is curved and more rounded than the other. This is the flat oblong with a patterned horizontal bar going down into a ‘V’ shape.

You will often find that the paint is either missing completely or has started to chip, but this is an excellent example.  I have recently bought a collection from a collector and this hasn’t been worn in the 50 years that she has had it.

Bengel pieces aren’t signed, sometimes they may have a mark on the clasp ring which reads – Guaranteed or Gesch but that is as much as I’ve ever seen. I believe they did have swing tags, hence they were removed before wearing.

Size: 18″ end to end – difficult to measure because of the shape with the ‘v’ but is a good length.  Could be lengthened with additional chain/links.

Condition: Excellent Vintage

Age: 1930s

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