Candice Bergen's father, ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his sidekick Charlie McCarthy ( sculpted after a rascally Irish newspaperboy) were vaudeville stars that amused families for years.. These neat  fur clips have a little lever at the bottom  that can be used to make Charlie McCarthy’s mouth move. Originally they would have had a metal frame that these two locked into to create one pin.  The back reads MF’D UNDER EXCLUSIVE LICENSE FROM EDGAR BERGEN AND CHARLIE MCCARTHY INC. The patent number is 2038343. According to the research, this was commissioned by Coro (Cohn & Rosenberger). In a press clipping,  from WWD, Oct. 29, 1937, "My Diminutive Little Chum"  Enters Jewelry". Stamped on the back, "Mf' d under exclusive license from Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy Inc. 

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