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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lizjewel, post: 2005504, member: 13874&quot;]The wonderful thing about brass stampings is that they are impossible to date. For one, they&#039;re still made in f ex Providence, Rhode Island, USA, as we speak.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was once at a stampings manufacturer&#039;s shown a stamping that came out of a storage drawer marked 1912. Next the same model stamping was dropped in my hand from the machine that had made it that day.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only difference was a little patina and dust in some of the crevices in the 1912 production piece. If anyone wants more details here&#039;s an archived article I wrote in 1998:</p><p><font size="4"><b>Inside Providence, Rhode Island, Part I of III:</b></font></p><p><font size="4"><b>The Parts That Make Up The Whole</b></font></p><p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20010708063538/http://costumejewels.about.com/hobbies/costumejewels/library/weekly/aa080798c.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://web.archive.org/web/20010708063538/http://costumejewels.about.com/hobbies/costumejewels/library/weekly/aa080798c.htm" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/20010708063538/http://costumejewels.about.com/hobbies/costumejewels/library/weekly/aa080798c.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The stamped brass brooch pin shown in this thread is very likely from a plant in Providence. Some of these plants are themselves over a hundred years old, got their start in the early 1800s, and are still in business. Attached are images from my trip to the Providence stampings manufacturer referred to above.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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