Biche de Bere Paris Rigid Choker Necklace with Black Resin Pendant

This stunning rare Bakelite long necklace was hand-crafted in France in the 1940s. The piece features a beaded design with an articulated crib toy doll pendant. The beaded necklace boasts autumnal colors with a lovely, warm palette of yellow butterscotch, red tea amber, green moss, cocoa brown, toffee brown, caramel brown, and ginger orange, many with marbling and swirling. The necklace has brass hardware links and a spring ring closing clasp. There is no visible maker's mark. The necklace is in excellent condition, with minimal wear on the brass links. Measurements: The necklace's total length is 24.41 in (62 cm) - The drop is 20.47 in (52 cm) - The pendant is 1.44 in wide (3.7 cm) x 9.07 in long (23 cm). Note: The use of Bakelite crib toys for fashion jewelry. A new form of Bakelite called Catalin was introduced in 1929, featuring a beautiful range of colors and creating an unbelievably cute aesthetic for these children's objects. Gone were the old-fashioned silver and ivory teething rattles of the Victorian age. In the early 1930s, children had brightly colored plastic crib toys which were safe and indestructible. The condition of many of them today attests to that. In the United States, one of the most popular manufacturers was Tykie Toys of Piqua, Ohio, which was in business until the late 1940s. Their designs included a range of little doll characters. Other crib toys designed included bell boys, sailors, soldiers, and black American or African-inspired characters. There was a huge fascination for anything exotic and people from far away, and the craze for jazz meant that black musicians were trendy at the time. New York designer Jan Carlin made stunning Bakelite jewelry out of old pieces in the 1970s. She has made many quirky brooches...

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Jean Paul Gaultier Paris designed this stunning pendant necklace in the 1990s for his Steampunk collection. The design features a silvered metal chain with a lobster closing clasp, ornate with a transparent and black multi-layer teardrop pendant. The medallion has a Roman-inspired gilded metal cameo embedded in the material. The piece is signed at the back with a Gaultier metal tag. The necklace is in good condition, with a tiny air bubble trapped in the material on the right lower edge of the pendant. Measurements: The necklace's total length is 18.94 in (48 cm) - the drop is 11 in long (28 cm) - The pendant is 0.88 in wide x 1.13 in high (2.2 x 2.9 cm). Note: Steampunk fashion is a subgenre of the steampunk movement in science fiction. It is a mixture of the Victorian era's romantic view of science in literature and elements from the Industrial Revolution in Europe during the 1800s. The fashion is designed with a post-apocalyptic era in mind. Steampunk fashion encompasses clothing, hairstyling, jewelry, body modification, and make-up. In 2010, steampunk style entered the high-end fashion market as designer John Galliano brought elements from the trend to his spring haute couture show for Christian Dior. Another designer associated with the steampunk style is Jean Paul Gaultier, who, from the 1990s, integrated elements of this current into his fashion and jewelry collections. In particular, he frequently uses...

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