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May 29 is Paperclip Day Celebrating Trading Up to a House!
May 29 is Paperclip Day Celebrating Trading Up to a House!
Did you know a man traded up a single red paperclip up to a single family house? Invented sometime in the 1870's, paperclips make sorting papers easier for office workers worldwide. 
As defined in www.wikipedia.org, a paperclip is a device used to hold sheets of paper together, usually made of steel wire bent to a looped shape. Most paper clips are variations of the Gem type introduced in the 1890s or earlier, characterized by the almost two full loops made by the wire.
According to the Early Office Museum, the first patent for a bent wire paper clip was awarded in the United States to Samuel B. Fay, in 1867. This clip was originally intended primarily for attaching tickets to fabric, although the patent recognized that it could be used to attach papers together. 
The most common type of wire paper clip still in use, the Gem paper clip, was never patented, but it was most likely being produced in Britain in the early 1870s by "The Gem Manufacturing Company". In Norway, paperclips are still referred to as Gems, similar to the way that tissues are often referred to as Kleenex.
One red paperclip is Canadian blogger Kyle MacDonald's website where he tracked his trades ... more

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