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Jewelry Findings
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"C" CATCH pin back fastener, used starting in the 1800s. | "C" CATCH pin back fastener, 1800s. | ."C" CATCH pin back fastener, 1800s. |
Victorian brooch BACK with tube hinged pin and c-catch fastener | Victorian brooch with TUBE HINGE back fastener, used first in the1800s. | Victorian brooch with TUBE HINGE back fastener, 1800s. |
Victorian brooch with a
TUBE CATCH, probably European late 1800’s. | TROMBONE catch patented circa 1850 and often used by European jewelry makers. | RIVETED HINGE pin back began to be use circa 1900. |
ENAMELED 14k violet pin with seed pearl, 2/3". This pin has a LEVER CATCH on the back. View #Q10025. The LEVER CATCH was patented in about 1901 and was often used on these tiny Edwardian pieces. It opens "backwards" as the knob up means it is closed. | SAFETY CATCH invented in about 1910 and variations are still used today.
| RIVETED BACK brooch. |
F.E. FARNHAM , 1937 No. 2,066,969 Safety catch for pins and the method of making the same. | One piece pin mechanism with safety catch, similar to that shown in the patent at right. | E. Morehouse, 1945 No. 2,383,012 safety catch Eugene Morehouse |
Benj. Allen & Co. Exclusively Wholesale, 1950 Edition | Vintage jewelry findings of the 50s, including safety catches, pin stems and joints, ear wires and nuts. Pin stems, screw-back earrings findings, safety and plain catches. Benj. Allen & Co. Exclusively Wholesale, 1950 | Vintage jewelry findings including keyless padlocks, sister hooks, clutches and necklace clasps. Hexagon clutches, hide-knot bead tips. Benj. Allen & Co. Exclusively Wholesale, 1950 |
Tongue and groove catch, also called v-spring and box, used beginning in the 1800s. | Tongue and groove catch circa 1800s. | Tongue and groove catch still being used in the 1960s. |
SPRING HOOK bracelet catch on a circa 1930s bracelet | HASKELL blue and pink glass bead and faux pearl double hinged bracelet, 1-1/4" wide. This uses the patent shown at the right. View #H23638 | G.K. LOWE, 1935 No. 1,994,826 Bracelet George K. Lowe |
SPRING RING first used 1840s, also called a BOLT RING. Often seen on 1880s Victorian lockets and collars. | JEWELER’S findings, split rings, spring rings, jump rings. Becken’s Catalogue 1902 | VICTORIAN silver beaded edge chain with an etched design on each link, 17-3/4" by 3/4" chain. At the bottom is a round link called a SPRING RING that opens so that a locket can be attached. Also called a BOLT RING. View View View View View View VICTORIANView #29476 |
BOLT RING first used circa 1840. These were larger than the later spring rings. | SPRING RING first used circa 1840s. | SPRING RING, starting in the early 1900s. |
Victorian PIN & BARREL catch. | Patent 1,386.746 Wackenheimer Spring ring !921 | HOOK AND BOX catch for a necklace circa 1920-30. |
LOOP or EAR WIRES on silver and malachite earrings, circa 1880. | HINGED EAR WIRE earrings for pierced ears, usually associated with European jewelry, circa 1880. The wire would be inserted from the back of the ear and fastened at the front in this style. | VICTORIAN 14k yellow gold and woven hair earrings with a HINGED EAR WIRE findings, circa early 1800s. #V32067 |
VICTORIAN hair earrings with kidney wire findings, circa 1880. View #V27335 | BIRD Victorian 12k and turquoise bird-motif pierced earrings with KIDNEY WIRES, 3/4" with dangle. View | Smoky quartz earrings showing the findings. |
CLEAR paste dangle pierced earrings marked "sterling" silver, gold SHEPARD’S HOOK wires, 1-5/8". ViewView | RODDIN 1888 Catalogue, earrings Roman and bright finish, polished ornaments, engraved tops, onyx, gold wires and engraved real stone settings. | The SCREW BACK shown here was patented in about 1894, though these earrings originally had a different style back for pierced ears. The ends of the original ear wires can be seen at the top of each earring. VICTORIAN faceted smoky quartz with 14k yellow gold tested fittings earrings, KIDNEY WIRES for pierced ears. |
Vintage jewelry findings of the 50s, including safety catches, pin stems and joints, ear wires, earrings findings and nuts. | Vintage jewelry findings including keyless padlocks, sister hooks, clutches and necklace clasps. Benj. Allen & Co. Exclusively Wholesale, 1950 Edition | Vintage jewelry findings including snap catches for neck clasps and bracelets. |
THREADED POST post for a pierced earring circa 1880. | POST & CLUTCH circa 1920-present. | The CLIP BACK mechanism for earrings was patented circa 1934 and used in different forms for many years thereafter. |
EARRINGS marked "pat 1649187", circa 1928. View View #Y23443 | Safety back device for ear ornaments, 1927 No. 1649187 P. REITER | EARRING , "pat 1649187", circa 1928. View View #Y23443 |
M. JELLINEK, 1946 No. 2,400,513 clip jewelry Markus Jellinek | Screw back and clip earring clip In the 1950’s, as a result of complaints that the other style was too uncomfortable, Haskell changed to the use of the "screw back-clip" earrings. | French earring clip In the 1940’s the switch was made to the "French clip", the thinner wire clip back we see on many older Haskell earrings. |
Combination contemporary clip-back and pierced earring combination for extra security, sometimes called a "French clip". THis aprticular set of earrinsg is from the 1980s.
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TWO-pronged FUR CLIP circa 1930-40s. | BACK of a DRESS CLIP circa 1930-40. | COROCRAFT DUETTE bow brooch that converts to two dress clips. "Duette" is a Coro trademark, and describes two fur clips that can be worn separately or attached to a pin backing. | View |
CORO Duette large blue faux star sapphire and clear rhinestones marked with patn. 1798867, 3-5/8". View #Y21861 | G. CANDAS, 1930 No. 1,798,867 brooch Gaston Candas | CORO Duette clear rhinestones and green baguettes marked "patn 1852188" and "1798867", 3". View #C21860 |
Cartier patented a mechanism for double brooches in about 1927, and Coro patented theirs in about 1931. |
E. PENNINO, 1937 No. 2,119,178 combination clip and brooch structure Oreste Pennino | A. PHILIPPE (TRIFARI), 1936 No. 2,050,804 Brooch (Duette style) Alfred Philippe | E.A. PHINNEY, 1931 No. 1,852,188 brooch or clasp Elisha A. Phinney |
R. DeROSA, 1935 No. 2,028,593 ornament (butterfly clip) Ralph De Rosa | BUTTERFLY pin… when the wings are squeezed, the pins open to be fastened. Marked on the back with the letters "EB?" in a bell. View View #Y1546 | |
CONVERTER to use with a brooch, allowing it to be worn on a chain. This one is in gold tone and it is 1" wide and 1" long, The pin stem slides into the barrel and a chain goes through the loop.
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| EXTENDER silver tone necklace extender. Fully extended it is 6" long. Each end fits onto the ends of a necklace and the barrels slide up and down the chain, allowing for different lengths.
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| 1850- trombone safety catch patented | 1849- safety pin invented | 1875- celluloid jewelry produced | 1893- cultured pearls first developed in Japan | 1894- screwback earring findings patented | 1901- lever safety catch for brooches patented | 1909- Bakelite patented (earliest was in black only, colors came later) | 1927- Cartier patented spring system for double clip brooch | 1931- Coro patented mechanism for double clip brooches | 1934- clipback earring finding patented |
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