"C" CATCH pin back fastener, 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, 1800s.

Victorian brooch with TUBE HINGE back fastener, 1800s.

  Victorian brooch with a TUBE CATCH, probably European late 1800's.

TROMBONE catch patented circa 1850.

RIVETED HINGE pin back 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 pieces.

SAFETY CATCH invented in about 1910   

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 

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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.
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 Vintage jewelry findings including keyless padlocks, sister hooks, clutches and necklace clasps. Hexagon clutches, hide-knot bead tips.
Benj. Allen & Co. Exclusively Wholesale, 1950

Vintage jewelry findings including guard chains and ring guards. Dual ring guards, child's ring chains, earrings guards, safety chains, cord bracelet guard chains,
Benj. Allen & Co. Exclusively Wholesale, 1950

Vintage jewelry findings including snap catches for neck clasps and bracelets, necklace and bracelet clasps.
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SPRING RING first used 1840s, also called a BOLT RING.

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  VICTORIAN    View    #29476

   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 Mexican Victorian 12k and turquoise bird-motif pierced earrings with KIDNEY WIRES, 3/4" with dangle.  View

  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. 
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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.  

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.

 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

  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

Becken's Catalogue 1902

JEWELER'S findings, slides, spirals, swivels, hooks, settings.
Becken's Catalogue 1902

BARREL Clasp

BRITISH 9 carat gold mark