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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 311093, member: 5833&quot;]Spent some time first trying to remember where among my &#039;holdings&#039; I see similar findings, then digging those pieces out &amp; examining them.&nbsp; They are all shawl &amp; bar pins, all things that are much longer end to end than they measure top to bottom.&nbsp; The bar pins may have served to hold a high collar snugged up &amp; to have been functional as well as decorative the way the shawl (or lingerie) pins also are.&nbsp; You do not say how big this is?</p><p><br /></p><p>I do not have anything with a clasp quite this ornate but a couple are more than simple Cs.&nbsp; Afraid the pins themselves speak to when (c. Edwardian) but maybe not so much to where.&nbsp; (Most of my pieces are British.) If your pin also dates to that era, it would have been quite modern looking for the time, so maybe 1920s?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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