1930's 14k Gold Tubogas Necklace bimetal with foliate motifs and millegrain

with foliate motifs and millegrain detailing around the settings

From freemasonry

It's modelled in 15k yellow gold

evidence of an old repair to one shoulder

1930's 14k Gold Tubogas Necklace bimetal with foliate motifs and millegrainDATE: Art Deco, c. 1930 Dating to the 1930's, here we have a fantastic tubogas necklace Tubogas translates literally to gas pipe and is the name given to a type of chain formed from a pair of interlocking gold strips wrapped tightly together. This forms a flexible and hollow tubular chain that requires no soldering, and it was super popular during the second world war due to the scarcity of metals. This technique was used in Van Cleef & Arpels in