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Brooch

United Kingdom

 

Thought to have been collected by Henry Balfour

Given to the Museum in 1915

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Brooch, United Kingdom

Brooches and pins are often purely decorative. However, their original use was to fasten clothes, as with this brooch from Suffolk, collected in 1915. It is made from an iron ring and wooden pin, and was used by agricultural labourers to fasten old sacks over their shoulders in wet weather.

View database record 1915.9.42