I must, first, thank Elaine at
Pear Tree Log for her post on a family heirloom brooch. Her post gave me the idea for today's
Show and Tell . It is an old piece of costume jewelry I collected many years ago.
All these years I've referred to it as the Miriam Haskell Brooch. I have no idea of it's value, but it is a signed piece.
Today, as I was photographing, it dawned on me that it was not a brooch. It is, indeed, a hat pin. I came to that conclusion when I tried to insert the pin on a blouse. The pin is rather large...what is needed to drive through the fabric of a hat.
I'm not sure of it's age, but she opened her first boutique in 1927, when hats were in style. If you want to know more about her history, click on
Miriam Haskell.
Now that I know it is a hat pin, the dilemma is, " Should I buy a new hat or just go with my old gardening hat?"
Meggie Mac
