{"id":37658,"date":"2013-05-28T07:46:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T15:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=37658"},"modified":"2024-06-07T11:30:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T18:30:51","slug":"brooch-patent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2013\/brooch-patent\/","title":{"rendered":"A Saxophone Brooch Patent? Who Would Have Thunk It?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you do a search for “saxophone” on eBay, on any given day you will find 20,000+ listings. Make it a worldwide search, and you will get over 45,000. Of those tens of thousands of listings, it’s a good bet that at least a few hundred are going to be for saxophone brooches.<\/p>\n

If you’re like anything like me, you’ve never given these mostly tacky, and very often ugly, brooches any thought. You’ve also likely never considered that someone might have obtained a saxophone brooch patent<\/em>.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n

Source: eBay.com<\/span><\/p>\n

Yup, it’s true. While doing some searching in Google Patents yesterday, I happened across this<\/a> little gem<\/em>… Pardon the pun. :groan:<\/p>\n

[perfectpullquote align=”left” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]There’s a whole world of tackiness waiting to be rediscovered.[\/perfectpullquote]<\/p>\n

In May 1938, Oreste Agnini and Mary Granville submitted their application to the US Patent office. Their application was very short and straightforward, and looked like this:<\/p>\n

To all whom it may concern:
\nBe it known that we, Oreste J. Agnini
\nMary C. Granville, both citizens of the United design. States, residing, respectively, in Maywood and
\nChicago, County of Cook, and State of Illinois,
\nhave invented a new, original, and ornamental
\nDesign for a Brooch or the like, of which the
\nfollowing is a Specification, reference being had
\nto the accompanying drawing, forming a part
\nthereof, and in which
\nFig. 1 is a front view; and
\nFig. 2 is Side view of a brooch showing our new design.
\nWe claim:
\nThe Ornamental design for a brooch or the like as shown.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Source: Google Patents<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Their patent drawing looked like this:<\/p>\n

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Source: Google Patents<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

So these anthropomorphic saxophone brooches were worthy of a patent? :scratch:  Honestly, I don’t understand it. Had no one designed a saxophone brooch before then? Presumably no one had patented<\/em> one before then.<\/p>\n

This same saxophone brooch patent from 1938, has been referenced in a number of other patent applicants, including one by Armand Arman, who in 1994 was granted a 14 year patent for the following saxophone brooch.<\/p>\n

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Source: Google Patents<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Isn’t that sweet? Two tenors saxophones in love. Now there’s a yard sale, or second-hand shop special, if I ever saw one.<\/p>\n

To quote a popular culture professor I had back in my undergrad days: “There’s a whole world of tackiness waiting to be rediscovered.” (She was originally referring to 50s and 60s paraphernalia.) I gotta’ tell you, from where I sit, when it comes to saxophone brooches, truer words have never been spoken.<\/p>\n

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…this is just my blog<\/em>. <\/span> My \u201creal\u201d <\/b> website is<\/span> www.bassic-sax.info.<\/a> If you\u2019re looking for <\/span> sax info<\/strong>,<\/span> you should check it out too.<\/span>There\u2019s lots<\/em> there! <\/span><\/div>\n
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