Butter knife hair barrette ???

[doublet2a]

Going through my brass an copper to take to the recyclers, and found this.
It was all bent up, looked like scrap at first.
I'm sure it's a hair barrette, but why a butter knife
Maybe a tie clasp for a Cook...

Thanks for looking

Tim

 

[TiBorn]

Unique, odd but kind of cool looking.

 

[Bramblefind]

I remembered another of these posted a couple years back. I found the thread here:

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/what/191571-butter-knife-barette.html

I edited my post in that thread b/c instead of a photo from the Sear Roebuck catalogue it was now a random snapshot of some people! (must have been since I used tinipic to upload it and they replaced the code since it was a couple years old).

I've skimmed through my copy of the 1897 Sears catalogue and am not seeing what I might have posted back then but I will look again.

 

[doublet2a]

I remembered another of these posted a couple years back. I found the thread here:

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/what/191571-butter-knife-barette.html

I edited my post in that thread b/c instead of a photo from the Sear Roebuck catalogue it was now a random snapshot of some people! (must have been since I used tinipic to upload it and they replaced the code since it was a couple years old).

I've skimmed through my copy of the 1897 Sears catalogue and am not seeing what I might have posted back then but I will look again.

Hmmmm, Interesting,, the same hair barrette in that post..

Tim

 

[IronSpike]

Cool find doublet2a

This site dates them circa 1950's and also fashioned as spoon/fork:

vintage barrette gold fork by rosebudcottage on Etsy

vintage barrette mini silver spoon by rosebudcottage on Etsy

 

[coinshooter]

Cool Tim!

 

[koolaidsmile]

I am a seller and collector of vintage jewelry and for some odd reason back in the day they like to use utensils as jewelry!! I have quite a few spoon pieces although I've never seen a knife piece before!! Very cool!

Kathy (koolaidsmile) :-)

 

[koolaidsmile]

Maybe they stole the idea from the Chinese with the wearing of chop sticks in their hair! I guess we decided to put cutlery in our hair! :-)

Kathy (koolaidsmile) :-)