Hats on HatpinsWelcome to our Start on this big project.
Overview: We are sorting through an old collection, learning as we go. The plan is to post separately for different types of hatpins that we see here, grouped according to our own idea of similarities until we learn better, and first lay out the sites that tell us what is old and good, or new and fake.
We are learning, including about "findings" - the connectors between the long pin rod and the decorative attachment.
The hatpins have not been cleaned in years, and we do not plan to clean them, so pictures may show darker or less shiny than you want. We understand that cleaning should be done professionally and we are not that.
Varieties of hatpins to come: We took silly pictures of the whole thing laid out in sillier vases on the driveway. That helped us categorize the basics.
Great variety. For golf buffs (many hatpins with golf clubs), a baseball player, animals, nationalities (Scots and Canada in particular), regimental buttons and other crests including one from the Order of the Garter (honi soit qui mal y pense), as well as a long hatpin with a hooked cross symbol, now a pejorative. Or, from wartime. No idea.
Give us time - have to learn the photography, am doing look-ups now. Some I already know I cannot part with - like the one with the Phrygian cap, and one with a brass chubby fellow face front, seated with feet out so you can only see the soles. He looks either smug or pained, can't tell which.
So far, just some of the big and little fellows are up here. Come back as we go.
Watch your fingers. Many do not fit in the baggies, and poke out - thus the folded-stapled paper shields to tame the points.
Basic book reference: "Baker's Encyclopedia of Hatpins & Hatpin Holders," by Lillian Baker, Schiffer Publishing Altglen PA 1998 (revised from the 1980?)
THE HATS! Look up Victorian and Edwardian hats (think Titanic) and listen to the rinky tink at ://www.eastangelhhttp://www.victoriana.com/EdwardianHats/arbor.com/
Edwardian hats are at ://www.victoriana.com/EdwardianHats/index.html
Victorian hats are at ://www.victoriana.com/Victorian-Hats/index.html
Other Basic online references as we find them.
Our photography is miserable. What happened here?We have a half-dozen that look like midnight. Brighten them up to see, and the color goes haywire. To be revisited. that cleaning should be done professionally and we are not that.
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