Object Record
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Metadata
Object ID # |
2008.054.011 |
Object Name |
Holder, Hatpin |
Title |
Hand-Painted Hatpin Holder |
Lexicon category |
3: Personal Artifacts |
Date |
Likely 1910s |
Made |
Unknown |
Place of Origin |
Japan |
Description |
Ceramic (china) hatpin holder, with three feet at the bottom. The white background is ornately hand-painted with pink/blue/gilt paints. There are rose motifs. The underside has a transfer-printed mark, and bears the words "NIPPON" (Japan) and "Hand Painted". The top of the holder is concave and perforated, in order to hold hatpins upright. |
Makers mark |
The underside has a transfer-printed pale blue mark that has a flower head motif above the word "NIPPON" and "Hand / Painted" |
Provenance |
Manufacturer unknown, but made in Japan and exported to North America. Likely dates to the 1910s. It likely belonged to either Adeline Foulds (née McCartney), or Ethel Winch (née Foulds). Her husband was Walter Winch. Circa 1949, they farmed in Holland Township, Grey County. They later resided at 734, 9th Street A. East, Owen Sound, Grey County. It was found among other items in their Estate. |
Collection |
Household Equipment, 20th-c Collection |
Material |
Ceramic/China/Glaze/Paint |
Dimensions |
H-11 W-8.3 D-7.5 cm |
Found |
Owen Sound, Grey County |
People |
Winch, Mary Winch, Walter |
Function |
This item would likely have sat on the top of a woman's dressing table or bureau, and near a mirror, as it helps to fasten on one's hat with hatpins when one can see what one is doing. The holder keeps the sharp points of the hatpins inside, and displays the often fancy heads that they had, so that it would be easy to select the pins needed. The large-brimmed picture hats of the 1910s often required two long-shanked hat pins to hold a hat to one's upswept hairstyle. The holder is a mass-produced pottery-made item, apparently imported to the North American market from Japan. |