Wood Clothespins Photo Gallery

The following pictures were found at Ebay & Etsy postings and on Google image searches. 
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Ebay Description:  Vintage set of 5 wooden clothes pins.
  These are from the turn of the century. 
The pins range from 4-1/2" to 6" long.

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Ebay Description: This early wooden blanket quilt clothes
 pin clamp measures approximately 2-1/2” W x 8” L.
 Perfect for any primitive decorating or textile display!
 Originally used as a jar opener in the kitchen and designed
 like a regular clothespin with the same spring action.

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Ebay Description: These mid 19th century wooden carved
 clothes pins come from my own collection which I have
 accumulated for 30 years.  They were each made from one
 piece of Oak with a nice patina and are in very good used
 condition with minimal age wear.  They each measure 
6 1/2" long and 1/2" wide.  

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Ebay Description: Vintage Lingerie Laundry Drying Rack.
 Composed of an oval Metal Frame with clothes hanger 
hook, Wood Clothespins permanently affixed that slide 
along the track.  It measures approximately 
13-1/4" long by 4-1/4" wide.

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Ebay Description: Five very old wooden clothespins 
brought over by immigrants from Sweden. 
They vary from 5" to 6.5" long.

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Ebay Description: This sale is for the 3 Unusual and Early
 Mechanical Clothespins pictured above. As with
 mousetraps, there was a time back near the turn of the 
last century when the search was on for the "perfect or
 better" clothespin.  The fellow who came up with this 
design was a real thinker.  It is way over designed. One has 
a repair where it split along the grain and was screwed 
back together. The other two are like new. This is a rare
 clothespin, and I believe I have the only supply of them 
from when I bought these from the original family of the
 original inventor.  I do not believe they were ever 
commercially offered and that there was 
but one production run. 

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Ebay Description: Penley "Klose Klips" clothespins—
These clothespins were similar to those described by 
Lester H. Penley in his patent applications of 1928 and 
1943. Mr. Penley’s new and improved clothespins 
eliminated the necessity for the freshly washed clothes 
to actually touch the clothes line, which, according to 
Mr. Penley, was covered with “dust and dirt.” I also 
discovered that this type of clothespin was used in 
darkroom photographic processing.

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Penley clothespins were made in West Paris, Maine, USA. 
Notice the price of 29-cents for 12 clothespins.

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19th century Whalebone clothespin with acorn finial.

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Ebay Description: The  person we we bought this from told
 us his aunt had run a little country store from the 1930's until
 the 70's, and the oversized clothespin was used with a
 display of  spring loaded clothes pins. It measures 6" by 1"
 by 2-1/2" at its widest point. The large clothes pin has a
 wonderful patina on the wood and metal, the kind that is 
only acquired with age. There is a small round hold on 
one side of the pin, near the top, we were told it 
was attached to the display to demonstrate how 
the clothes pin worked. 

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Henry Mellish 1871 Clothespin
2-3/4"H x 1"W x 5/8"D

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Benjamin Charles & Vincent D. Urso
1873 Clothespin
3-1/8"H x 3/4"W x 1/2"D

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Henry W. Sergeant Jr.
1865 Clothespin
4-1/2"H x 1"W x 7/16"D

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David M. Smith
1867 Clothespin
2-13/16"H x 1"W x 7/16"D

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6-5/8" x 1-3/8" x 3/4"

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