posted 08-01-2008 10:15 PM            

I recently found a sterling bracelet I've not worn in decades because it is too snug for my taste. I like a bracelet to move on my wrist and slip up and down several inches. This one is a series of highly distinctive, identical not-quite-flat, organic links.

I wonder, could I have someone cast an additional link? But, if it had to be cast, what would prevent the person making the cast from keeping it and creating more of these (really quite nice) pieces of jewelry and selling them?

I don't know any silversmiths, let alone a silversmith's character. OR -- is this fear unfounded? Is the mark of a famous maker-- even I had heard of this one! -- going to carry big penalties for forging, so that unscrupulous types wouldn't dare try to sell copies? I don't know if I am making mountains of mole hills here. I would simply like another link to a very nice bracelet and don't know how to go about it. It is a shame not to wear it as I have never had a bracelet feel so good. Hard to describe, but shape, weight, surface attract the touch-- it's slithery 'soft', almost like wearing heavy liquid. The metal feels as good as velvet to the skin! My daughter had never seen it before and even she, on trying it on, commented on how magical it felt.

Advice?

posted 08-02-2008 02:59 AM            

On the clasp it does say 'Georg Jensen' in an oval of little dots. Under that: '925 S'. Over the Georg Jensen mark is some very faint writing. I have been puzzling over it. It's not only faint, but a bit worn. I can only guess at the letters. The first looks like a capital K, but it could also be a worn R. Second letter looks more like an upside down little 'v'. Could be a vowel, or an 'n'? The next letters are a bit like a couple 'o's' and I can't make out next which might be partially lost in the logo. The last letter looks like one of those 'o's with a slash through it. Does that sound familiar to anyone?

Oh.... I almost forgot: there is a very clear number: '17 6.'
Will that help identify this design? I did google 'georg jensen + bracelet' and looked at those pictured on the jensen site. None were this design. I'll try to take a photo but don't think I will get to it until late Sunday.

Will it be hard to get a Georg Jensen extra link?
~Bonnie

posted 08-03-2008 03:48 PM            

Here is the bracelet. I put it on a slightly domed surface to catch the available light more realistically, finding it looked much better in natural light than flattened out by the flash. The links aren't flat, but are slightly curved so that the 'wings' of each link float slightly higher than the 'spine.'

posted 08-03-2008 04:15 PM            

dragonflywink -
Your brilliant suggestion to add the Annette Howdle name to Georg Jensen worked! Only found one image, but it is a necklace of the same design! The Georg Jensen site says Annette was born in 1938, presumably still living, but only worked in Georg Jensen design department from 1962-68. Is that going to make getting a new link difficult or more expensive ? I'm getting a bit pessimistic.

kimo - your thoughts are sensible. I was over-reacting.

posted 08-04-2008 01:04 PM            

I think she may be right:

Perhaps the most economical solution of all would be to give her the bracelet as a gift! ... if she wants it.

You know, looking at the bracelet on an arm, I think the darned thing looks better OFF the arm, though it FEELS marvelous on. I am thinking that the necklace was a better use of these links as more links are seen at once. Now if only I'd been given the necklace...