Grace Kelly - Princess of Monaco Collection Bakelite Link Necklace
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Product Overview
This Bakelite link necklace from the Princess of Monaco Collection features 10 bright crystal accents that will illuminate your neckline.
Bakelite is a fire-resistant plastic invented by Leo Baekeland in 1909, and one famous designer who offered Bakelite jewellery and accessories was Coco Chanel, starting around 1912. At that time, the only colour used for Bakelite was very dark brown or black.
About the mid-1920s, a new batch of Bakelite colours were made available thanks to advancing technologies, and those captured the imagination of more and more jewellery companies. But the most valued colour of Bakelite for collectors remained the dark brown or black. Over the years the lighter colours darkened, and often not evenly over the entire piece. These pieces were discarded by their owners, making the surviving pieces more valuable.
While shopping in Paris during the early 1970s, Grace Kelly found this long necklace, with five segments of Bakelite, in an antique store on Avenue Foch, not far from the Grimaldi apartments. At that time Grace knew about Bakelite jewellery as the American pieces were mostly made in Philadelphia, and her mother had some of the later pieces, known as the Philadelphia bracelets.
Early in the use of Bakelite, Coco Chanel used mixed materials, and it wasn’t until after World War One ended that she started using all Bakelite for her jewellery. This necklace dates to about 1912–1914, and even though it was a Coco Chanel antique and very expensive, it was used by Grace Kelly as one of her everyday accessories.
• 18K gold plated
• (10) 2.50 mm round diamond crystals
• Lobster claw clasp
• Necklace measures approximately 36" in length
• Romance card and manufacturer's certificate included
• Steel case with velour cover
• Nickel free
• Made in China
More Info:
Manufactured by Clarion Pell, LLC, GraceKellyCollection.com. Use of name and likeness of Princess Grace of Monaco with permission of the Princess Grace Foundation USA, which supports emerging artists in theater, dance, and film. www.pgfusa.org. Under license from Kismet Kors LLC.
Bakelite is a fire-resistant plastic invented by Leo Baekeland in 1909, and one famous designer who offered Bakelite jewellery and accessories was Coco Chanel, starting around 1912. At that time, the only colour used for Bakelite was very dark brown or black.About the mid-1920s, a new batch of Bakelite colours were made available thanks to advancing technologies, and those captured the imagination of more and more jewellery companies. But the most valued colour of Bakelite for collectors remained the dark brown or black. Over the years the lighter colours darkened, and often not evenly over the entire piece. These pieces were discarded by their owners, making the surviving pieces more valuable.
While shopping in Paris during the early 1970s, Grace Kelly found this long necklace, with five segments of Bakelite, in an antique store on Avenue Foch, not far from the Grimaldi apartments. At that time Grace knew about Bakelite jewellery as the American pieces were mostly made in Philadelphia, and her mother had some of the later pieces, known as the Philadelphia bracelets.
Early in the use of Bakelite, Coco Chanel used mixed materials, and it wasn’t until after World War One ended that she started using all Bakelite for her jewellery. This necklace dates to about 1912–1914, and even though it was a Coco Chanel antique and very expensive, it was used by Grace Kelly as one of her everyday accessories.
• 18K gold plated
• (10) 2.50 mm round diamond crystals
• Lobster claw clasp
• Necklace measures approximately 36" in length
• Romance card and manufacturer's certificate included
• Steel case with velour cover
• Nickel free
• Made in China
More Info:
Manufactured by Clarion Pell, LLC, GraceKellyCollection.com. Use of name and likeness of Princess Grace of Monaco with permission of the Princess Grace Foundation USA, which supports emerging artists in theater, dance, and film. www.pgfusa.org. Under license from Kismet Kors LLC.
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