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This cast white metal dress clip is set with pave and baguette colorless pastes in an angular geometric pattern. It attached to the neck or back of a gown with the large hinged clip on the reverse.
fasteners
white metal
glass (material)
Clip, Clothing
Clip, Dress
Women's Clothing
Clip, Dress
2308
Unknown
2 x 2 1/8 x 7/16 (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Eleanor Fayerweather
1993.911
The Fayerweather Family Papers and The Fayerweather Family Photographs, Massachusetts Historical Society. (see Fayerweather accession file for a description of these collections). The best information on the Fayerweather family is in John B. Carney, "In Search of Fayerweather: the Fayerweather Family of Boston," parts 1-3, "New England Historical and Genealogical Register" 144, no. 1 (January 1990): 3-21: 144, no. 2 (April 1990): 151-168; 145, no. 1 (January 1991): 57-55.
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