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Czech dress clip (one of a pair)

1930–1939
Country of Origin, for CustomsUnited States
Medium/TechniqueChrome, Bakelite
DimensionsHeight x width: 8.5 × 2.5 cm (3 3/8 × 1 in.)
Credit LineGift of Carole Tanenbaum
Accession number2018.4065.1
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment
Collections
ProvenanceBetween about 1970s and 2018, acquired by Carole Tanenbaum, Toronto, Ontario [see note]; 2018, gift of Carole Tanenbaum to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 12, 2018)

NOTE: This is part of a large collection of costume jewelry given to the MFA in 2018, which had been built over about 40 years.
Monophone (AE 40)
Automatic Electric Company
1938–50
Walter von Nessen
designed about 1938; manufactured 1938–42
Walter von Nessen
1930–40