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Shell, Ivory, Pearly

July 13, 2008

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These are the shells and pearly shell bits.

Coming: ivory florals

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Military Hatpins - Canada. Military Button Conversions.

Big-hat hatpins Canadian Mounted Police Is one from William Scharfe? Could be. Hello. Canadian Mountie button hatpin The Mounties! 1904 or earlier. Canadian. Small, 3/4" across, rod 7 1/2". Victoria Crown on top, then banner with "Canada", and below that, a buffalo, see http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dsucha/mountie/macleod.html. Below that is"NWMP". North West Mounted Police. The Mounties. 1874-1904. See ://www.nwmpmuseum.com/historyofthenwmp.html. NWMP, instead of other letters, see below, puts this button-hatpin at 1904 or earlier. This site shows a slightly different logo, with the French, "Maintain le droit," at://www.ucalgary.ca/~dsucha/mountie/mountlist.html. The Northwest Territories came into the Dominion of Canada in 1873. The Hudson's Bay Company departed, leaving a vacuum in law enforcement on the frontier. The first two congingents of Mounties, probably not known by that name then, about 400 men, were trained and deployed

Old Quebec - The Golden Dog, Le Chien d'Or; William Kirby

Big-hat hatpins The Golden Dog Howard C. Scharfe and Marjorie Scharfe Hatpin Collection, The Golden Dog, Quebec (Je suis un chien qui rongelo") . The Golden Dog. This hatpin of dog and bone, in sterling with a black enamel rectangle inset, is modeled from a bas-relief * in Quebec, above the post office entry, see it at ://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Golden_dog.jpg. We have been asked if we know the value of this or any other hatpin. No, we don't. Some are on ebay (gossamer258751 a/k/a Tree of Knowledge Books) but our starting asking price is just to get things started. Too many do not have comparables. The inscription starting from the 9:00 position, thinking of a clock here, is Quebec; then at 12:00 is, "Je suis un chien qui rongelo," meaning roughly, "I am a dog who gnaws," and at the 3:00 our hatpin has a date 1735, but that date is not on the bas-relief at that place. The date 1736 is below the whole thing, at the post office bas re

Military - Buttons, Insignias, Other. US 27th Infantry?

Military buttons - from a distance, look similar. Up close, not so. And all military-related symbols are not just on buttons. See the wolf head here, that we think represents the US 27th Infantry, below.. It is also shown in the animals hatpins post because we aren't sure of the category. Military buttons hatpins, Group photo To identify, as a start we tried the British://www.militarybadges.info/pages/uk/ribbons.htm, but cannot enlarge the hundreds of buttons/ badges enough on that site to see detail. We see for the American buttons: ://www.thetreasuredepot.com/cayenna/home.html. But can't activate the navigation. Trying://metaldetectingworld.com/buttons.shtml 1. Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense. Small. British. rampant on left (facing us) and faces viewer. Unicorn rampant on right, in profile. Crown on top of button, no lion on top of it. 7 1/2 " rod, button 5/8" across, shield area. Latin looks like "Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense" that to us meant Order

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