Vintage Jakob Bengel Art Deco machine age, beautiful blue marbled buy galalith and chrome geometric bow motif brooch

Lovely vintage Art Deco brooch by Jakob Bengel, made in the early 1930s. This piece is beautifully engineered out of a marbled blue colour galalith (type of early plastic similar to bakelite) and beautiful shiny chrome. The reverse shows the neatly covered rivet construction, creating this simple and elegant design.

The blue galalith pieces are a particularly lovely colour - an unusual one.

Excellent vintage condition - I haven't seen an example with the chrome plating in better, shinier condition.

Give it more versatility by using this brooch converter to make it into a pendant:
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/812104275/brooch-converter-silver-tone-2cm-tube?ref=listings_manager_grid

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 buy Coco Chanel, Bengel started to produce experimental jewellery. The pieces, catalogued 1924-1939, combined brass and chrome with geometric shapes of coloured galalith.