Dating of "chandelier earring"

[Hugo]

"chandelier earring" (ODO undated)

Life magazine, 14 Nov 1949 - Page 135, the caption to a photo of a woman wearing them:

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CHANDELIER earrings (Coro, (Marvella, $25) are new version of popular pendants.
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http://books.google.com/books?id=90wEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA135&dq=%22chandelier+earrings%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=A78gUpyzE8SR4ATEgYH4Bg&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA

Also dated 1949 are Google Books snippets of The New Yorker (Volume 25 - Page 156) and Program (Cleveland Orchestra, Page 72) and Cue: The Weekly Magazine of New York Life, which may well antedate Life by a few weeks or months.

Hugo

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