2026.1

Belonged to María Teresa Cornide

Maker: "Flower Brand" (名花牌), a Shanghai hair-grip/bobby-pin make — a long-running Chinese export product (still supplied today, e.g., via Shanghai Yangming Imp. & Exp.). Specific factory/date not indicated on the card. Date: Not closely datable. The brand has been produced for decades, so it doesn't fix a date; no year is printed. The card's mid-century graphic style and the simplified Chinese characters (发夹/中国上海 — post-1956 script reform) indicate a later-20th-century date, plausibly within range, but it cannot be firmly confirmed within 1959–1990 and may fall outside it. (Undatable from the object; leans mid-to-late 20th c.)

Flower Brand; BEST QUALITY; 名花牌发夹; HAIR GRIPS; TRADE MARK (rose/peony roundel); SHANGHAI CHINA / 中国上海. No date or lot number.

Metal

Cardboard

Materials: Lacquered/japanned steel hair grips (black finish); printed paper/card backing with cotton retaining bands. Technique: Stamped and bent sprung-steel bobby pins with black lacquer finish; lithographed retail card; pins held by sewn/folded cloth bands.

Good

Dating cue is the card, not the brand: the simplified characters (post-1956 reform) and the litho style suggest mid-to-late 20th century; a precise year isn't recoverable from the packaging.