April 16, 2024
VINTAGE ETCHED 24K GOLD & MOP LUCITE PANEL BRACELET
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This is the second of two bracelets that I am selling this week. This one was made in the early fifties, and it's a beauty. Nice and heavy, but not uncomfotably so on the wrist. It's a Damascene bracelet, made in Toledo, Spain, and widely known as ToledoWare. It originated in Spain and has been done by talented artisans for centuries but didn't become popular until the very late forties, and more into the early fifties, up through the sixties. It is the art of etching a heavy metal alloy, usually silver, and then dipping it in layers and layers of 24k gold wash, then enameling in various colors can be added. It' a very high end costume jewelry that is valued by collectors today. This particular one is a nice wide one, measuring 2 1/2" at the widest point and 2" at the narrower point. It is 7 1/2" long with the push-tongue clasp closed. These bracelets always came with a security chain, which of course, this one has too. It is joined together by nine double layered convex mother of pearl lucite panels(which was indicative of most of the jewelry items made by these artisans), totaling 18 individual strips. The lucite panels are of such high quality that it is difficult to tell them from real mother of pearl, and the quality is so exceptional that the lucite, even over years and years, does not dry out and crack or chip. Each lucite
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