Vintage Silver-Tone Tubogas Snake Wrap Bracelet

Description:
A coiled serpent wraps the wrist in flexible tubogas, a tightly spiraled metal tube that moves like a living body. At each end, an engraved scaled head and tail cross over one another. Small pink-red stone eyes give the snake a watchful glint. Snake jewelry, a symbol of eternity and renewal since antiquity, was beloved in the 1940s–1950s. This wrap style flexes to fit the wrist with no clasp.

Materials:
Silver-tone metal, rhinestones

Details:

• Era: 1940s–1950s
• Style/design notes: Flexible tubogas wrap bangle with an engraved, scaled head and tail that overlap
• Stone or material notes: Round pink-red rhinestone eyes
• Function: Flexible wrap, no clasp
• Color: Silver, pink-red
• Condition: Good vintage condition. The plating is worn inside the coil and shows warm gold-tone base metal, and the edges of the head and tail caps show wear.

Collected by Mineral and Matter