Used by María A. Cabrera Arús for adornment.

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Jablonec

MAKER: Attributed to the Jablonec nad Nisou (Gablonz) costume-jewelry industry, Czechoslovakia — see research notes (identical example in the Jablonec museum catalogue). The specific producing enterprise is not identified, and the bangle itself bears no maker's mark. DATE / PERIOD: Not marked. ORIGIN: Jablonec nad Nisou (Gablonz), Bohemia, Czechoslovakia — attributed on the basis of an identical example in the Museum of Glass and Jewellery (Jablonec) reference volume.

MATERIALS: Cast/molded plastic in a butterscotch/amber color. The appearance is the classic "Bakelite" (cast phenolic resin) look, but the material is not confirmed; period Czechoslovak bangles were made in various cast and molded plastics, so the type should be verified by non-destructive testing rather than assumed. TECHNIQUES: Cast or molded as a solid rigid hoop, then turned/shaped to the domed profile and polished. No applied decoration.

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A 1975 Jablonex fashion image in Dreaming of the Future: Design of Czechoslovak Glass and Jewellery 1948–1989, Museum of Glass and Jewellery in Jablonec nad Nisou (captioned "Jablonex 1975") shows wide, plain, brightly colored bangles — red, yellow, navy — stacked as a fashionable stack, documenting that bangles of this form and saturated palette were part of the Jablonex/Jablonec export range in the mid-1970s. Jablonex was the Czechoslovak state foreign-trade enterprise that exported Jablonec-region glass and costume jewelry. This supports a Czechoslovak origin and a circa-1975 date for the bangle. The correspondence is stylistic and by palette rather than exact. It therefore corroborates the type and period but does not by itself constitute a one-to-one identification, and it does not settle whether the bangle is cast plastic or lacquered/stained wood.