Two unsigned Miriam Haskell WWII wooden dress clips. To view these beauties side-by-side, click here.
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This clip with hand painted or stained, carved wooden beads with green glass beads has all the characteristics of Miriam Haskell WWII dress clips with the plastic perforated backing, all pieces wired on, and the typical Haskell clipback mechanism. width: 2-1/8", height: 2-1/8"
A smaller version of the above clip identical in color and construction demonstrating all the characteristics of Miriam Haskell WWII dress clips with the plastic perforated backing, all pieces wired on, and the typical Haskell clipback mechanism. width: 1-5/8", height: 2-1/8"
More funky, fun wood jewelry from the 1930's and 1940's.
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c. 1940's bracelet with wooden acorns and leaves in green and brown and real hazelnuts hanging from brass findings all strung on a brown woven cord with a brass box spring with v-clasp. length: 7-1/4", width: 2"
c. 1940's necklace with wooden acorns and leaves in green and brown and real hazelnuts hanging from brass findings all strung on a pale green woven cord with a brass spring-ring closure. length: 17", width: 2"
Java jag! c. 1940's cocoa bean pin with green painted and stained leaves and brown painted cocoa beans hanging on machine stamped links from a green bar. length: 2-1/2", width: 1-1/2"
Nuts to you! Adorable c. 1940's wood pin with deeply carved green painted palm leaves and five brown palm nuts hanging on gimp. [Some wear to gimp.] length: 3-1/2", width: 2-1/4"
c. 1940's brass link bracelet and pin. Bracelet has alternating redwood and brown stained maple leaves. The pin has two clusters, each of three redwood stained or brown stained maple leaves hanging from a redwood stained bough. bracelet: length: 7-1/2", width: 1-1/2"; pin: length: 2-3/4", width: 2-3/4"
c. 1930's carved wooden bird with painted yellow bill, black and white eye, green accent on neck and white and yellow strip down back. The wooden body is applied on a single piece of lucite with undercarved wings and tail. Inset flat back hinge clip with c-clasp in lucite wings. length: 4", height: 2"
c. 1940's wooden doe pin with celluloid ears and carved eye and nose. [See "The Confident Collector, 2nd Edition" by Harrice Simons Miller, p. 103.] width: 2-1/2", height: 2-3/4"
Doggone it! Would you believe I'm finally dressed. Darling c. 1930's carved chocolate brown wood scottie dog pin sporting a red painted tartan coat and plain red collar, attached plastic eye and riveted pin-back assembly. (The coloration in the wood is in the wood itself.) height: 1-7/8", width: 2-1/8"
Great color in this c. 1940's deep aqua blue stained wood pin and bracelet. The pin has two outer rows of round discs surround a center round on a brass base. A center row of alternating small and large wood beads are flanked on each side with two rows of small wood beads to form an arc in the bracelet. pin: diameter: 1-5/8"; bracelet: inner circumference: 7-1/2", width: 1-1/16"
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