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Sword hatpin
Sword, total length 8 1/4" - for rod people, the rod itself is the flat blade at 6 1/4". There are paste "stones" -now dulled, but a professional may know what to do, at the end of the hilt, and where the hilt joins the blade. Also at various points on the handle.
This one needs attention. It also would make a good weapon - not the pin shape rod, but a significant flat blade with a dandy point. Easy to put in purse, and remove from hat.
Read about hatpins as weapons, or injuring bystanders unawares, and the need eventually for hatpin tip protectors in "The Good Old Days," by David Lewis Cohn, http://books.google.com/books?id=0uB15d5hE38C&pg=PA347&lpg=PA347&dq=hatpin+ordinance&source=web&ots=cZ-L8iYSdg&sig=aTTSSznML8Av-f9m_WeMRx3JrQw&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result.
These smaller hatpins could date from before the era of big hats, or after, when fashionable hair was bobbed or at least shorter, even loose, and hats were smaller.
Sword hatpin with chain and scabbard
Here is a sword with an attached tip protector, a sheath. Sterling, blade and hilt. Total length, 5 7/8". Blade alone (the rod) is 4 1/4". The blade is flattened, like a blade, and is not a long pin shape. Chain distane to sheath (sheath is detachable) is 4 1/4". Sheath is 2". Much detail - the sheath has a raised dot place to stop the blade from going further into the sheath - a brake.
Wirey sword hatpin
This pin-type sword does not look very strong, but is. More serious than it looks. Dainty in shape, but not in heft of material used: perhaps for an indoor lace cap, or light ornamental cap. Total length - 7 1/2".
Looks like one long pin, simply shaped at the top and wrapped, but on close look, the hilt is copper, and the pin is brass.
Great detail - there is a textured area for the handle, an overlay well fitted to the rod, for a firm grip if Tom Thumb were to get serious in his duel. Not sure of the metal for the handle. Not copper, and not the same color as the brass pin rod.
More examples online - see ://www.rubylane.com/shops/drury/item/4006-x784096. Some were made as replicas of actual swords, actual Generals - listing for a General Buford sword hatpin at ://www.kovels.com/priceguide/kovels_hatpin/
Sword hatpinSword, total length 8 1/4" - for rod people, the rod itself is the flat blade at 6 1/4". There are paste "stones" -now dulled, but a professional may know what to do, at the end of the hilt, and where the hilt joins the blade. Also at various points on the handle.
This one needs attention. It also would make a good weapon - not the pin shape rod, but a significant flat blade with a dandy point. Easy to put in purse, and remove from hat.
Read about hatpins as weapons, or injuring bystanders unawares, and the need eventually for hatpin tip protectors in "The Good Old Days," by David Lewis Cohn, http://books.google.com/books?id=0uB15d5hE38C&pg=PA347&lpg=PA347&dq=hatpin+ordinance&source=web&ots=cZ-L8iYSdg&sig=aTTSSznML8Av-f9m_WeMRx3JrQw&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result.
These smaller hatpins could date from before the era of big hats, or after, when fashionable hair was bobbed or at least shorter, even loose, and hats were smaller.
Sword hatpin with chain and scabbardHere is a sword with an attached tip protector, a sheath. Sterling, blade and hilt. Total length, 5 7/8". Blade alone (the rod) is 4 1/4". The blade is flattened, like a blade, and is not a long pin shape. Chain distane to sheath (sheath is detachable) is 4 1/4". Sheath is 2". Much detail - the sheath has a raised dot place to stop the blade from going further into the sheath - a brake.
Wirey sword hatpinThis pin-type sword does not look very strong, but is. More serious than it looks. Dainty in shape, but not in heft of material used: perhaps for an indoor lace cap, or light ornamental cap. Total length - 7 1/2".
Looks like one long pin, simply shaped at the top and wrapped, but on close look, the hilt is copper, and the pin is brass.
Great detail - there is a textured area for the handle, an overlay well fitted to the rod, for a firm grip if Tom Thumb were to get serious in his duel. Not sure of the metal for the handle. Not copper, and not the same color as the brass pin rod.
More examples online - see ://www.rubylane.com/shops/drury/item/4006-x784096. Some were made as replicas of actual swords, actual Generals - listing for a General Buford sword hatpin at ://www.kovels.com/priceguide/kovels_hatpin/
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