Patent Model for the Improvement in Ear-Rings
date: label: date made
content: ca 1876
label: patent date
content: 1877-03-13
name: label: inventor
content: Weed, Louisa A.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: New York, Brooklyn
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content: Work and Industry: Agriculture
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content: Clothing & Accessories
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
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content: Invention and the Patent Model
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content: Patent Models
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.188323
label: catalog number
content: 188323
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 188,323
objectType: label: Object Name
content: patent model, ear ring
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 cm x 1 cm x 1 cm; 25/32 in x 13/32 in x 13/32 in