On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 08:30:33 -0600, Will wrote:

I am lookiing for some of those spring loaded clips you used to find in
church pews,

Try an architectural salvage yard. Ours have loads of umberella racks
from the ends of pews, having cut down the pews into short "deacon's
benches" and sold them as decorator pieces. "Pew clips" (which I've
never seen) may well have gone through a similar fate.