Pins Collection (page 3)

Advert for John Bennett jewellers, novelty jewellery 1905
A seletion novelty animal style charms, scarf pins and brooches by John Bennett, jewellers, Cheapside. 1905

Selection of fashionable millinery pins 1886
Showy hair pins, every kind of metal and real or false stones used, the griffin pin is made in gold and enamels, the handle of the slver gilt sword is mother-of-pearl surrounded with stones in

Trade catalogue of hair accessories 1911
Trade catalogue for Harrords department store, showing a selection of hair combs and slides for womens hair. Date: 1911

Dog, stork on nest and moonlight scene on a Christmas card
A little dog, a stork on its nest on a roof, and a moonlight scene with water on a Christmas card -- all part of a trompe l oeil assembly of three pictures pinned to a wooden board. Date: circa 1890s

Boy and girl attaching New Year greeting to a tree
Boy and girl in historical costume attaching a New Year greeting to a tree. Date: circa 1890s

Boy and girl attaching Christmas greeting to a tree
Boy and girl in historical costume attaching a Christmas greeting to a tree. Date: circa 1890s

Austrian art nouveau jewellery scarf pins, pendants, and brooches in enamel, gold, silver.. Color plate from Charles Holmes Modern Design in Jewellery and Fans, published by the Studio 1902

WW2 birthday card, WaF
WW2 birthday card, two girls in WaF (Womens Auxiliary Air Force) uniform. A full measure of happiness on your birthday! Date: circa 1942

The Origin of the Bob by William Heath Robinson
And the first realisation of its advantages. A lady struggling to maintain her hair style while on board a board, looks with envy at a decks mop and its unmoving head

Suffragette Votes for Women Doll
A suffragette doll wearing a brown dress and hat, holding a Votes for Women placard. The head of the doll is made from a ping pong ball with a hand painted face

Pin seller
Three rows a penny pins. Itinerant pin seller. From Old London Cries (1885) Date: 1885

Advert for Goldsmiths & Silversmiths jewellery 1905
Selection of Edwardian novelty jewellery for Christmas. 1905

Advert for Association of Diamond Merchants Jewellers 1896
Diamond and pearl jewellery for 1893. 1893

French woman in a munitions factory, making parts for arti
French lady as she sits at her bench, in a French factory, machining brass striker-pins for artillery shells. 1916

Advert for Mappin & Webb jewellery 1904
Selection of Art Nouveau jewellery, including pendants, brooches and scarf pins. 1904

Red Indian Hair Care
The dressing table of a Seminola Indian from the Everglades, Florida, U.S.A. The sausage-roll shaped rat serves as a support for the coiffure built upon it. Date: 1930s

Spanish Woman
A Spanish woman in traditional costume, her hair ornately tied up with combs and bejewelled pins. Date: 1930s

Le Gros De LA Neuville
N LE GROS DE LA NEUVILLE French inventor of hair-pins for ladies - the only inventor of hair-pins in our entire portrait archive ! Date: 19TH CENTURY

Japan - Geisha Girl with elaborately pinned hair. Date: circa 1903

France, Brittany - Sables-d Or-les-Pins
Hotel des Ajoncs d Or at Sables-d Or-les-Pin, Brittany, France. Now a bakery! Date: circa 1910s

Tailor and dress maker
People You See. Tailor and dress maker. From Teddy Bear (30 November 1963)

So Far So Good - A fine pair of ankles, calves, knees and
" So Far So Good" - A fine pair of ankles, calves, knees and... Date: circa 1910s

Pin, Olympic Games Cross Channel swim
Pin for the Olympic Games Cross Channel swim. Date: 1928

J Hassall. Needles and pins
Needles and pins, needles and pins, when a man marries his trouble begins. 20th century

Needlemakers 18th France
Seven workers making needles in a workshop in 18th century France. Date: Circa 1760

Needlemaker Tools 18Th
Various tools used to make needles in 18th century France. Date: Circa 1760

Two thatchers at work
Two thatchers repair the thatch on the roofs of two traditional country cottages. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Cookery education, 1955
Two small girls in aprons at Harwich Road Primary, Colchester, sit at a table outdoors and roll pastry with rolling pins

The beach at Juan-Les-Pins by Helen McKie

Hiking Sanitary Towels
Advert for Southalls compressed sanitary towels, each one packed with two safety pins and made especially for hikers! Talk about cashing in!

Finds from Hissarlik
Some of the finds from Heinrich Schliemanns excavations at the site of Ancient Troy at Hissarlik. These include hair-pins and an ivory arrowhead

Pin-Up with Blossom
Blonde model, with the tip of her tongue protruding seductively from between her red lips, raises both arms behind her head as she pins apple blossom in her hair

Hat & Hat-Pins / H. Fisher
Danger: a devilish looking young woman fastens a large picture hat to her blonde head using several dangerous looking hat-pins

Satirical Fashions 1844
Albert Smiths gents: loud cravats, huge tie pins, pinched waists, boys in kilts, plaid trousers, bizarre top hats, hunting pinks, sac coat with large buttons

Pin Makers at Work 1805
A woman pinmaker seated on a stool uses a foot operated press by means of a treadle. A man in the background works at a table

Tailoring / Miss Tape
Miss Tape the Tailors Daughter, from " Happy Families" devised in Britain by Mr Jacques in 1861

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