Floral clasps are typical of old Bavaria in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In the Innviertel they were also known as “Flohnschnallen”, or Flohn clasps. “Flohn” was the word for a black neckerchief, generally made of silk, which replaced the white collars on men’s and women’s outfits in the 1730s. It was folded and looped twice around the neck. Men knotted it at the front, and women secured it with a floral clasp. Older examples were in cast metal. The slightly convex, pierced basic shape has been soldered with little flowers. 100 years later, the floral clasps of the Biedermeier period were convex and made of moulded filigree silver. 

In the 1830s, the silk neckerchief was replaced by multiple rows of silver chains. The collection has a number of examples of the transition phase from the floral clasp to the choker. The richly decorated clasps varied from region to region.

Rings were used as decorated embellishments. They were not generally of great material value. Farmers’ signet rings were often made from brass and alloys of tin and lead. Rings with large, brightly-coloured glass stones are rarer.