Holiday in Blankenese

Antique Bracelet of Blankenese Traditional Costume with Gold Filigree Clasp & Garnet Beads, dated 1836

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Antique Bracelet of Blankenese Traditional Costume with Gold Filigree Clasp & Garnet Beads, dated 1836

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This bracelet takes us to Blankenese near Hamburg. On a three-row bracelet of faceted garnet beads and small gold beads, there is a magnificent box lock of high-carat gold filigree. In its center we see a crown-like motif along with small flowers. "These locks are by far the most beautiful of all Blankenese jewellery," according to a standard work on the traditional jewellery of northern Germany. Such clasps were worn on necklaces in Blankenese, but they were made in the Netherlands, with which good trade relations were maintained. While the Dutch were adept at making the finest filigree jewelry, the people of Blankenese made money and gained prestige through fishing, and found willing buyers for their fresh catches in the Netherlands. Even later, when the Napoleonic Wars put an end to fishing, the connections and prosperity continued because the people of Blankenese concentrated on cargo shipping. But this exchange with the neighboring country was not limited to Blankenese: very similar filigree locks were also worn in Helgoland. For holidays, the Blankenese fisherman's wife combined her jewels with a blue or black cloth skirt, accompanied by a jacket made of flowered calico, blue cloth or even silk damask. Our clasp will also have once been worn in this way for the feast day. A dotted engraving to the bottom of the clasp reveals the initials of its first owner and the year "1836". In later times, the necklace was apparently converted into a bracelet. On the Blankenese jewellery and the necklaces in particular, see Hubert Stierling: Der Silberschmuck der Nordseeküste, Neumünster 1935, p. 202, where the above quotation is also found.

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"Among the not very numerous pieces of jewelry of the Blankeneserin dominated the necklaces, mostly two- to three-row garnet necklaces, which were characterized by gold or even silver box locks with particularly delicate filigree, a crown motif and sometimes small pressed flowers." Quoted from the exhibition catalog Volkstümlicher Schmuck aus Norddeutschland, Altonaer Museum, Hamburg 1979, p. 65. Also the bracelet here will probably originally have been a necklace that was then shortened to a bracelet in later times.

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Holiday in Blankenese

€ 1,690.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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