Vintage 1930s - Rhodium-plated Triangular Art Deco Dress Clip With Clear deals Round & Baguette Diamanté Stones

Here is a really fabulous find - a 1930s Art Deco era diamanté dress-clip, dating from around the mid 1930s. The interesting triangular design has beautiful clear foil-backed round and baguette diamanté stones which are all intact, set into a rhodium-plated setting. One dress clip like this can be worn in lots of ways - on the neckline of an evening dress, on the lapel of a jacket, in your hair, threaded onto a silver chain as a necklace even...
This clip measures 3.8cms wide x 3.5cms long (1 1/2" wide x 1 3/8" long) and even though once upon a time this may possibly have had a matching mate, I think it was designed originally to be worn alone. Dress clips didn't always come in pairs, and I think the large size of this suggests it was probably a solo piece.

This is an unsigned piece - the design of this is very similar to deals the early Trifari clips bearing the KTF brand logo, but they made a point of signing everything right from the start of the company, so I know this isn't one of theirs. The quality is however on a par with them


DRESS CLIPS

Dress clips on their own, were widely produced by companies such as Eisenberg, Miriam Haskell, and a number of others, but they're not always marked. Many were made of pot metal with no identifying markings present or overly distinctive characteristics, and these are all but impossible to attribute to a manufacturer. An abundance of this type of clip was made during the late 1930s and early 1940s, and they're generally associated with this era.

Larger dress clips were more frequently sold individually rather than as part of set. Some dress clips were sold in pairs, which could be worn at the corners of garments with square necklines.

Trifari and Coro, along with other unidentified manufacturers, were also known for making pairs of smallish clips held together in a specially designed mechanism allowing them to be worn together as a pin or separately as clips. Trifari patented their interlocking clip system as “Clip-mate,” while Coro patented a similar design as “Duette.” The generic name 'duette' has been used for quite some time among collectors as a catch-all term for this type of pin/clip duo.If you love the idea of vintage dress clips and the Duette brooches, click here for all my other items in this category:-

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If you'd like to know more abouty how to wear these lovely clips, go and read this:-

https://vintagejewelleryfun.wordpress.com/2017/01/14/little-bits-of-glitz-dress-clips-duette-clips/