Object Record
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Metadata
Object ID # |
1970.081.012 |
Object Name |
Hatpin |
Title |
Hatpin with Coloured Brilliant |
Lexicon category |
3: Personal Artifacts |
Date |
1910s? |
Made |
Unknown |
Place of Origin |
Unknown |
Description |
Hatpin with unusual droopy head. It is a brasstone item, with a pinkish or rust-coloured, faceted glass? piece set in the top. |
Provenance |
This item likely dates from the 1910s, but we do not know its manufacturing place of origin. Original provenance unknown. May have belonged to Martha Jane Rogers (neé Powell) of Woodford, Grey County. The last owner was Edna Spence (neé Woods). After her mother's death when she was young, the Rogers family fostered her for some time while she growing up in Woodford. She later inherited a number of their belongings. |
Collection |
Jewellery, 20th-c Collection |
Material |
Brass?/Glass? |
Dimensions |
W-2.3 L-19 cm |
Found |
Woodford, Municipality of Meaford, Grey County |
People |
Rogers, Joseph M. Spence, Lorne and Edna Rogers, Martha Jane |
Subjects |
Hats Jewelry |
Search Terms |
Woodford Sydenham Township |
Function |
A long pin used to secure a lady's wide-brimmed hat to her upswept hairstyle, so that her hat does not slide or blow off in the wind. |