CUTE Estate vtg 50s-60s Ster Moving CHARM: Jail BALL and CHAIN w/ PEARL bead

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CUTE Estate vtg 50s-60s Ster Moving CHARM: Jail BALL and CHAIN w/ PEARL bead:
$9.00

Many of our items are from an old Yankee New England Maine Family estate --Hope you find something you can treasure.Pictures are worth 1,000 words, so we let our photos do thetalking. Be aware that camera flash and your color monitor can cause colordifference ------Do help us clear house and move things forward!!! Too Much Stuff!!! PLEASE helpus offer today -- we are full to the rafters!!! See our other salesfor great clothing, sterling silver holloware and flatware, vintage charm bracelets and charms, Other baby items, cruise ship items and more Remember pics are closeups of item and thus exaggerated, use ruler/dime photos for better estimate of actual size PLEASE READ ENTIRE LISTING!

Estate Vintage 1950s-1960s STERLING CharmPearl \"Ball and Chain\" - jail, prisonersFab fifties style!

A ball and chain was a manacle affixed to a prisoner\'s ankle, chained to a heavy metal ball, to prevent escape.

---The old slang phrase \"Ball and Chain\" later became a slang expression some husbands would say about their wives:The allusion referred to the presumption that a man\'swife held him back from doing the things he really wanted to do... she was the heavy ball manacled to him.

---Most men meant it in jest, but it fell out of favor during the Women\'s Rights movement of the Sixties.

---A cute dangling charm for a fiancee, bride, engagement, shower, wedding, anniversary...

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Aunt Nancy loved Charm Bracelets, and Charms... andwe inherited a lot of them - from her collections, as well as old inventory from her Gift Shop.. As well as her love of sterling bracelets, necklaces, pins, brooches... And great Mid-Century costume jewelry... Now moving forward some of the beautiful pieces thatno one in the family claimed or wanted, see our other sales for other sterling hollowware: salt cellar dishes, dips, standing salts, serving spoons, other flatware, too

This is one of many we are offering… Check out ourother sales, for charms plus charm bracelets

FYI: Sterling: .925 silver