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Patent Model for the Improvement in Ear-Rings
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Small metal model or example of a design for a spring clasp mechanism to securing an earring to the ear lobe. The design specifications also allowed for and concave/convex discs to help the earring seat itself on the ear lobe or a pin on the disc incase the wearer had pierced ears (This model does not show the pin). The model also shows two eye hooks. One allowed for a dangle and the other allowed a chain and hair clip that would attach to the hair for security.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit linePatent Model for the Improvement in Ear-Rings. ca 1876. Weed, Louisa A.. National Museum of American History. CC0.
