Extra Credit Questions

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The English name for these is the same as the French name "girandole" (Italians say "girandola"), where they originated in the 1700s. Your guess as to age is probably wrong because these were very popular in America during the Rococo Revival era (mainly 1840-1870).

I learned about these forty years ago when a two-piece set was donated to Surratt House. Unfortunately, they were just too elegant for our simple parlor, and we arranged for them to go to a more appropriate historic house.

BTW: Some Victorian earrings were fashioned along the same lines and called girandole earrings. There were/are others called chandelier earrings.

Hope we haven't bored our gentlemen to tears with this female jabber...