Featured Watch chain, keychain or sommige else?

hello antique lovers,
I'm so glad i found this site because i need your help again to unravel the mystery behind this item. this keychain / watchchain thing
it's about 13 cm long and is unmarked. I tested for silver; test was negative scratches dissolved quicklyI
I have totaly zero knowledge but the way in which the materials are used makes me suspect that it was processed by someone who knew his craft very well.
I would be very happy if you have any information you'll share with me.


mine questions
who would have made this object?
was it made during the art deco period? is it machine made or hand made? do symbols (the sun, anchor, triangle, cross, etc.) have a specific meaning? what is the purpose of use?

I would like to thank you in advance for the time you take to view it and possibly respond. greetings

 

Probably nickel silver,examples in link. https://www.google.com/search?q=nic...EFA4EQ_AUoAnoECAEQBA&biw=1264&bih=642&dpr=1.3

 

I think the "sun" is a ship's wheel. So, along with the anchor, to me this is a nautical theme.
To me, the enamel decoration part at least, has an Arts and Crafts era look. It reminds me of the art you see in old catalogs and magazines from the early 1900s.

 

Where there is enamel, is the design repeated on both sides? Or does the other side look different? If backs are plain, could we see them?

 

Looks like a watch chain & fob.

 

the back has the same design

 

Thank you hollyblue i saw the many examples. Is it correct to think that this kind of chains mass produced?

 

how great!. I can see the steering wheel now. Im now looking for information about art and craft era.

 

I'd call it a fob too. I'd also call it MINE if a similar one showed up here. It would make one heckuva pendant and already has a clip to put it on a chain or a cord.

 

Certainly a fob and a nice one.

 

Whats i a fob?

 

A decoration or anchor for the end of a watch chain.

 

I'm a blank slate when it comes to antiques... maybe a really stupid question but how was it used? I thought watches were attached to clothes. Am I missing the part of the chain that attached the watch to the clothes

 

Think you have in mind something like the single/double Albert chain that attached through a buttonhole. Yours would hold the watch by the clip; the watch would reside in a pocket; the decorative part would hang out over the edge of the pocket & act as sort of a handle for pulling the watch out. Look at 'strap fobs'.

 

maybe even dumber question but due to maritime theme... would this have been worn by a woman or a man?.

 

thanks i'll

 

Not dumb, interesting. Pretty sure it would have been a man's. Women wore their daintier watches more as jewellery, hanging from a chain around the neck or hooked to a brooch. Don't think women's clothing was generally made with a watch pocket.

Somewhere in all these pages we have a photo of one way a woman might wear a watch. @i need help Can you locate? The conversation was about lanyard-like neck chains, watches on brooches, how they worked together. I was one participant.

 

I just found it too. How the heck did you do it so fast?!