Dec
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The Victorian Nanny Pin Brooch
ByHere is a very strange and rare type of brooch – The Nanny pin.
Here is a rare brooch – its only the third one of these I’ve had in stock in the last 15 years. This is known as a Nanny pin brooch. It dates from the Edwardian era ( possibly late victorian) and is set with “Goldstone” which glitters wonderfully.
The reason it is know as a “Nanny pin ” is that one end unscrews Inside the Nanny would keep a needle and cotton ready for sewing up her little charges clothes if they got torn whilst they were out. How quaint.
This antique brooch measures 5 cms long
Goldstone is acutally a form of glass rather than a natural gemstone. It has been made with tiny copper inclusions which glitter and look like flecks of gold.
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- Nanny pin brooch
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- open Nanny pin
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