designed for: Volmer Bahner
Denmark
Volmer Bahner was Denmark's best known specialist enamel company, and was registered from 1962 to 1988.
The designs are innovative, especially in the beautiful guilloche enamel floral pieces such as the cala lily, which was made in several colours including a number of blues, white and deep red. This design was used for brooches, earrings, bracelets and even necklaces. But Bahner also produced simple, non-figurative designs in the Art Deco style.
Above all, the most instantly identifiable Volmer Bahner designs are his hearts and animal motifs, including fish and butterflies. These too were made in different configurations and for different body parts! Many were specifically designed as presents for young girls, and so the rings, bracelets and necklaces are often quite small in size. These can however be extended by any competent jeweller, as they have usually been assembled with simple jump rings.
Bahner's mark is his initials VB, accompanied by STERLING, DENMARK
His work is sometimes also linked to the company CHRISTGAU, and may bear this mark.
products
VB large blue enamel leaf brooch
VB small Sterling red butterfly on bar brooch
VB burgundy enamel hearts brooch and earclips
VB Sterling bracelet
VB girls' enamel butterfly bracelet
VB Sterling modernist necklace
VB Sterling enamel large butterfly bracelet & brooch
VB Sterling red or white guilloche enamel brooch
VB Sterling vermeil white guilloche enamel bracelet
VB white guilloche enamel necklace
VB burgundy enamel cala lily brooch
VB blue guilloche enamel heart bracelet
VB white guilloche enamel butterfly brooch
