Featured Brass stamped bats necklace... Which era?

Hi joolies!
I'm asking for a friend who bought this cool necklace on French eBay and both of us don't know the age of it...

52cm or 20.5" long, each bat is 10cm or 4"
Light weight!

Every link is soldered, as the rings on the bats.

Closure is a hook.

Thanks for your help or opinions

 

Really nice, but I'm stumped as well. Could be 1970s, but then again, there is a slight possibility it could be true Art Nouveau.

Let's ask our resident bat expert, @Darkwing Manor , who may have come across something like it.

 

I'm thinking sixties.

 

There are very similar stamping on Etsy. They are almost identical bar the stamping being a little cleaner.
One says made by the Sacred Lab Co.

 

Oh my gosh. It is so unusual that I love it!

 

Woah! Thank you K! They are very similar though a tad smaller

 

@Any Jewelry @Ownedbybear thanks!
Waiting for more opinions before giving my thoughts

@ulilwitch indeed! Same for me, sadly it isn’t mine
Still can kyratize one from the bats on Etsy

 

Those are nicely done repros, the casting is quite detailed. I saw my first one sometime around the late 70s or so, in silver, brass or bronze tones. My fav is a bracelet.

 

Want to see more bats? Here is my Pinterest- Icons of Halloween- Bats page. What a great way to waste time and procrastinate! https://www.pinterest.com/darkwingmanor/bats-the-icons-of-halloween-in-the-decorative-arts/

 

I’ve always meant to say I love the hearse on your avatar! What’s the story there?

 

Love that it includes origami instructions.

 

I am enormously fond of bats. Had one clinging to my car aerial many years ago. They're enchanting, fascinating and complex little animals.

 

That's quite a story. I purchased it at a private museum collection liquidation in Manassas, VA many years ago. It was made by the Nuffer and Lippe Carriage Co. of NY. We used it as a prop in our haunted attraction. One summers eve, a drunken driver being chased by the police plowed into our drive-way, hitting three cars, two port cochere pillars and the hearse, knocking it out into the back yard. The porte cochere roof then collapsed on top of everything. The driver ran off on foot and was never caught. No one was at home, so we are lucky no gas tanks exploded, burning down the house.
In the ensuing hearse restoration, the original owners brass plaque was discovered on the underside of the coffin bed. It had been in service to the Falconer Bros. Undertakers of New Market, MD during the Civil War. When the hearse was returned, after a $10,000, 2-year restoration, this is what I photographed in the back window. When we retired, we sold it to a carriage company in Minneapolis. Now the hearse is back in service, mostly hired out to gangbangers who try to kill each other at the graveside services. Poor old hearse. I hope our Lady in White scares them straight.

 

Beautiful!!!!

 

Wow, I love your Pinterest page! I shared it with some other friends who appreciate such things. Thanks again!

 

Thanks for the compliments. I can't take much credit; I just pull them from other's Pinterest pages. It is a bit addicting.. and a challenge to play the "Do I have this one posted twice?" game!

 

You still put them all on one page. It is a collection you didn't have to pay for, but a collection nonetheless.

 

Ha! I do this all time for things I admire but can't buy... my virtual hoarditorium!

 

I have one of the best collections of Uzbek jewellery!
Online.

(I do own some Uzbek pieces, but nothing as grand as my virtual collection.)

 

LOL- I even have a Baroness's Closet Board. But nothing is age-appropriate anymore.