Pins Collection (#5)

Advert for Streeter, diamond accessories 1894
A selection of diamond accessories including tuquoise and diamond, pearl and diamond decorative hair combs, fine tuquoise and diamond tiara

Pins with gilt heads. 2nd-3rd century. From Can Colomer Munm
Roman Art. Pins with gilt heads. 2nd-3rd centuries. From the burial ground of Can Colomer Munmany, Vic Catalonia. Episcopal Museum. Vic

Bone pins. Neolithic. Denmark
Bone pins found in a grave and a bog. Neolithic Period. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark

Bronze Age. Objects and ornaments. Broze. Northern Zealand
Prehistoric. Art. Bronze Age. Neck rings, arm rings, costume pins, chains, other ornaments, axes and a chisel-like object. From Rogerup Bog, northern Zealand. 700-500 BC. National Museum of Denmark

Boy and girl with large ladybird on a Christmas card
Boy and girl with a large red and black ladybird on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Pin Maker 1827
A woman uses a foot pedal to operate pin making machinery. Date: 1827

Advert for Faulkers novelty jewellery 1886
Faulkers celebrated diamonds, with spanish crystals. 1886

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

Three colourful juggling pins, front view

Marine compass

Row of three fairy lights

A plastic body fragmentation hand grenade is among the cache of explosives captured by U.S. Marine Corps Marines conducting patrols on the streets of Umm Qasr, Iraq, during Operation Iraqi Freedom

Close-up of a duty master-at-arms badge on the uniform of a U. S. Marine
Close-up of a duty master-at-arms badge on the uniform of a U.S. Marine

A senior drill instructor inspects a recruits rifle for cleanliness. The recruits use cotton swabs, lubricant and cool water to clean their weapons

The Purple Heart Award
A soldier wears his Purple Heart on his digital camouflage minutes after being awarded the medal

Fleet Marine Force Warfare Device

The Fleet Marine Force Warfare Specialist Pin has the Marine Corps emblem, the eagle, globe and anchor in the center. All sailors attached to a Marine Corps unit are now required to pass a series of

The command master chief badge
Arlington, Virginia, October 12, 2006 - The Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy announced that the command master chief badge has returned to its traditional location

Sailors display their Fleet Marine Force Warfare Device
Four sailors display their Fleet Marine Force Warfare Device

The Purple Heart award hangs over the heart of a U. S. Marine
Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, February 18, 2004 a The Purple Heart award hangs over the heart of a U.S. Marine

Fleet Marine Force Warfare device pin
Sailors are earning their Fleet Marine Force Warfare device pin while deployed to Al Asad, Iraq. Sailors earn the right to wear the pin through an intense series of tests on Marine Corps fundamentals

The Enlisted Fleet Marine Force Warfare Specialist pin was adopted into the U.S. Navy fleet in July 2000. Only sailors assigned to Fleet Marine Force units can qualify for the device

The Picture of Pattenty, c. 1641-50 (engraving)
XJF347912 The Picture of Pattenty, c.1641-50 (engraving) by Hollar, Wenceslaus (1607-77); Private Collection; (add.info.: Who am I, who am I like, what nobody)

Roman Accessories, from Trachten der Voelker, 1864 (colour litho)
BAL246078 Roman Accessories, from Trachten der Voelker, 1864 (colour litho) by Kretschmer, Albert (1825-91); Private Collection; German, out of copyright

Umbrella Pines at Caroubiers, 1898 (oil on canvas)
XIR199123 Umbrella Pines at Caroubiers, 1898 (oil on canvas) by Signac, Paul (1863-1935); 65x81 cm; Musee de l Annonciade, Saint-Tropez, France; (add.info.: Le Pin Parasol aux Caroubiers; ); French

Title print six scholars sitting around a table and text in letterpress, Hans Burgkmair (der Altere), Heinrich Steiner, 1483 - 1519

Push pin

Twelve Pins, view from Bellanaboy, Connemara, County Galway, Republic of Ireland, Europe

Making Christmas cookies with dough and cookie cutters

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

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