Sewing Tools & Trinkets
Subtitle: Collector's Identification & Value Guide
Publisher: Collector Books
Published: December 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780891457367
Subjects: Antiques & Collectables; Precision instruments manufacture; Equipment and supplies; Catalogs; Antiques & Collectibles; Antiques / Collectibles; Thimbles; Antiques/Collectibles; Sewing; General; Reference - Price Guides; Collectibles; Collectors and collecting
First sentence: The straight pin was primitive, rare, and expensive until the mid-nineteenth century, when English manufacturers refined the quality and developed the one-piece straight pin.