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Shell, Ivory, Pearly

July 13, 2008

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These are the shells and pearly shell bits.

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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...

Damascene style hatpins

Big-hat hatpins Damascene style The Damascene technique is an interlacing of gold or iron on steel. See ://www.aimjewelry.com/damascene.htm - Toledo, Spain is known for this. There is also a Saint John Damascene, see ://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08459b.htm, not our tradition but we wondered about the name. Connection probably with Damascus, Syria - John of Damascus. Did the technique originate there. Damascene hatpin, floral Tall Damascene two colors of brass metal, and black. Looks Moorish. Head is 1 1/4" tall, rod is 9 7/8" long. Howard C. Scharfe and Marjorie Scharfe Hatpin Collection, Damascene, serpents, big-hat hatpin Petaled round. Damascene snakes looking at worried rabbit. Special form of metalwork. Rod 10 3/4", top diameter 3/4". See the Damascene section at the Lillian Baker encyclopedia at p.36, see Hatpins Collection, Lillian Baker . She says that, yes, this technique did originate in Damascus. ............................

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