Scarf Fins

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2128, 23 October 1896, Page 4

Scarf Fins

Emblem scarf pins are mad..- in a variety of forms for various trades and callings. For example, there are two ' l)ms made especially f<>r druggists' wear, one a gold mortar and pestle, the other formed of a druggist's scales and mortar combined. These are also made up in -the form of watch charms, a* arc many other of these special designs. There are made for butchers one pin with a rleaver, and another having a saw. clearer, and steel combined for a head. A scarf pin made for printer* has for its head a gold composing st;<-k. For telegraph operators there is a pin wiili a ticker for a head. There is a scarf pin made with a Lead in the form of a palette and brushes, and with the dabs of paim represented by tiny patches of enamel, for artists: for musicians, there is a scarf pin in the form of a lyre. For tinners, there is a pin with a pair of tinner's sliears for a head: for saddlers. a pin with a head in the form of a saddler's knife. There is a pin with a plane for a head for carpenters, a horse and yider for jockeys, a locomotive pin for Woinotive engineers, a lantern for trainmen, and a ticket punch for conductors. There are pins, one with a hook and ladder for head, one with a fire engine, and another with a fire hat and trumpets made for firemen, and there are various other special scarf pins. Some of these trade pins are worn more in the city and some more in the country: but. altogether, their sale is decreasing, while the sale of society pins is increasing, more and more men preferring the society to the trade pin. Of emblem pins in general far more than ever before are now sold. They are worn by the members of various military, benevolent, veteran, trade, and social organisations, by college societies, and by graduating classes from schools, and itey are produced in a very great variety of design."—New York Sun."