Stickpins

(Don't miss his anecdote about hanging a map behind his desk with randomly inserted stickpins.) ❋ Unknown (2007)

The Museum of Financial History is selling bear stickpins for $60. ❋ Unknown (2008)

We could issue broccoli stickpins to vegetarians, bunny heads in profile to animal-rights activists. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He “loved his home and his family very much,” related twenty-one-year-old widow Caroline Katter Engel of the man who played the violin beautifully “by ear,” owned a typewriter and an Edison phonograph, and wore stickpins and cuff links. ❋ James R. Hansen (2005)

There was a diamond stickpin stuck in a fancy tie, and undertakers didn't wear diamond stickpins. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The mathematical and theoretical side of the combine, fair and dark, looked sober and professional; Jason and Jeremy, in their stickpins and fancy weskits, seemed bright and a little dudish standing next to them in the flickering atmosphere of gaslight and crystal. ❋ Barbara Hambly (2000)

He was quite tall and lean, and had a penchant for elegant silk ties and old-fashioned finery such as vests, cuff links, pocket watches and stickpins. ❋ Patricia Cornwell (1994)

The bags were found to contain, among jewelry and other things that were apparently the proceeds of robberies, a number of pawntickets calling for stickpins, watches and other articles which the police lieutenant at the desk announced would be looked up by some of his men. ❋ Allen Chapman (N/A)

"The stickpins and watches of Buck Looker and Carl Lutz!" announced Bob impressively. ❋ Allen Chapman (N/A)

Of course, one's hair isn't dropped on the sidewalk or prodded with stickpins until the mainspring breaks, but it is subjected to even deeper and more trying insults. ❋ Helen Follett Stevans (N/A)

An American coin, a matchbox, and several other articles, which were apparently the relics of stickpins, were all that had any appreciable value. ❋ Roger Thompson Finlay (N/A)

Flag stickpins, bon-bon boxes representing flags, or some patriotic book would be appropriate. ❋ Mary E. Blain (N/A)

They were used just like dressmakers 'stickpins, only the holes had to be made first, and, of course, they looked better for being regular. ❋ Ernest Thompson Seton (1903)