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Message:: [QUOTE="MaJa, post: 12166019, member: 14649"]altough the post is already a few days old, I would like to add the following comments:<ul> <li>the Amerikaner Doublé is the lowest quality of gilded metal, it is 10-20g pure Gold per kg base metal, usually brass or tombac. It was widely used until the 1960s</li> <li>I would date the pendant to the 1930-1950s, it is not Jugendstil.</li> <li>The amber pendant is made from so called "Pressbernstein", meaning pressed amber. Pressed amber consists of small pieces of natural amber or amber powder that are fused under high pressure and heat into a uniform block. It is considered the most common imitation of natural amber, but is often allowed to be labeled as “real amber” (echter Bernstein) since it consists of 100% natural resin/amber.</li> <li>The Darmstädter variety of the Jugendstil was influenced by the Vienna Secession and not the other was around as written above. The Vienna secession was founded in 1897 and the Darmstädter Kolonie was founded in 1899. The Grandduke of Hessen asked Joseph Maria Olbricht, the architect of the Secession Building, to come to Darmstadt. He was the unofficial leader of the artists' colony and also had the highest salary. Both the geometric variety of the German Jugendstil ("Darmstädter Jugendstil") and the related Austrian secession style have their roots in the English Arts and Crafts movement, esp. the Glasgow School.</li> </ul>[/QUOTE]