Hollycraft Egyptian Revival Statement Costume Jewelry Necklace, circa 1960s

- Vintage item - 26" chain - Medallion measures 2.5" in diameter - Gold tone - Prong set "Rivoli" multicolored crystal - Circa 1960s - Estate acquired - Excellent vintage con...

- Vintage item - 16" gold filled chain - 1.25" x 1" gold plated pendant - Pink crystal accent - Clasp closure - By Nolan Miller (signed on verso) - Circa 1980s - Estate acquir...

- 24" length - 4.5" x 4" pendant - Gold plated - Faux turquoise cabochon - Double strand chain - Clasp closure - By Cadoro (signed on verso) - Made in New York - circa 1970s CONDITI...

- 27" total length, can be adjusted down using hook clasp - Gold plated - Faux coral beads - 3.5" x 3" medallion with sea life relief motif including mermaid, stingray, seashells, starfish and fish - Dangling seashell and sea life charms...

Dior gold-tone rhinestone-detailing bow-pendant necklace featuring bow pendant, heart charm, rhinestone detailing, signature CD logo charm, adjustable fit, rope chain, lobster claw f...

This chunky and fabulous Chanel gold plated chain necklace with large bold hanging CC pendant is marked. It is made in France Autumn of 1994. Chanel is marked on the bar part of the ...

Most likely made in Germany during the Art Deco period, this vintage unsigned long heavy 12-pendant gold-gilt chain-link bib necklace features ball charms of gold-ringed emerald-green matte Bakelite. Hanging 13-inches from the back of the neck, the long necklace is constructed with elegant double-ring links, while it fastens with a large toggle and decorative bar. Each end of the toggle bar resembles stacked balls, recalling the oval-cartouche stacked-cannonball signature of German jewelry chain-specialist Jakob Bengel, who founded his business in Idar-Oberstein in 1873. Due to WWII, the Bengel factory, which is now a museum, permanently closed. His pre-1940 unsigned designs were largely overlooked until his factory catalogues were rediscovered decades later, which enabled 21st-Century books to be published about one of the leading manufacturers of Art Deco costume jewelry. Bengel pieces without the cartouche can be distinguished by thin metal chain links combined with single or bi-color Bakelite pendants in repeating geometric shapes like balls, semi-circles, rectangles, bars, rings or ribbed texture. As Germany was the first country to license Bakelite for factory production since the 1910s, during the next 20 years its costume-jewelry designers began to feature locally-produced colorful Bakelite instead of glass or early semi-synthetic plastics. Between the world wars during poor economic conditions in Germany, its jewelry producers who were manufacturing for export were not motivated to stamp their country on such products. The design of this Bakelite-charm necklace seems inspired by one-of-a-kind chunkier-chain charm necklaces commissioned for couture clothing ensembles by international fashion leader Parisian Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel. She only produced her trend-setting commissioned jewelry...

Featuring 12 large patinated pearlescent charms distinctly handcrafted by Parisian Louis Rousselet--the master glass-and-metal-ornament parurier for French couture fashion houses since 1920--this heavy silver chain necklace is made in the unique chunky style of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel that she introduced in the late 1920s. Capping Rousselet's signature Art-Deco-period handmade beads, his intricate multi-texture metal tops for these balls resemble organic shapes like the stems of acorns or fruit. In a bib arrangement, the duotone reflective heavy spheres--in black glass, blue-gray enameled galalith, and silver metal--conform to the cleavage of the wearer. Aside from chain jewelry commissioned by Chanel, Rousselet-style jewelry was usually constructed with thin wires or braided string to enable his beads to attract the most attention. Notably, this necklace fastens with an enlarged spring-ring clasp that became associated with increasingly heavy Chanel costume jewelry. Like 1920s Chanel jewelry by Rousselet, the necklace is both unmarked for French origin and unsigned. In subsequent decades, variations of chunky-charm chain necklaces were reproduced by Chanel with her other paruriers using different materials in which they specialized, such as a similar Chanel-signed piece in the 1960s by bronze-maker Maison Denez...