I went to an antiques fair yesterday and a lot of the stuff was uninteresting and/or Way Too Expensi
I went to an antiques fair yesterday and a lot of the stuff was uninteresting and/or Way Too Expensive (which I’m assuming is normal for antiques fairs but I hadn’t been to one before so I’m not sure) but I did get a couple of watch keys and some weapons grade hatpins!I assume the watch keys are 19th or early 20th century, but I will put them on my late 18th century watch strings, which I still need to make more of. The Met has a lot of late 18th c. watch strings that have jeweled keys on them, but one of them does have a key identical to these ones! The seller had many more of them so I’m guessing it was just a basic watch key design that stayed the same for a long time. Or maybe someone changed the key on the Met’s one later in the century, who knows?The hatpins were sold all together in that bunch of corks for a surprisingly affordable price, and now I’m well prepared to attach large hats to my head if I ever decide to do turn of the century drag! -- source link
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