Thesaurus Term/Concept: PAPERCLIP

Identifier 143226
Class MDA OBJECT TYPE
Status Preferred
Index? Yes
Scope Note A piece of wire or similarly flexible material shaped to form a clip for fastening papers together; invented by the Norwegian Johann Vaaler in 1899. The familiar double-oval 'Gem' clip was developed by Gem Manufacturing Ltd. in England the same year.

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