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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… also WHITE PIECE. Sources: Inventories (mid-period). Black pins [black and white pins; bla pins] Early examples of black PINS may have been made of …
Old and New London
… it sometimes pricks my conscience, I come to sell 'em pins and looking-glasses." To which her friend, Mr. Bird, … meeting for men of their faith, had secretly drawn out the pins, or sawn the supporting timbers partly asunder. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… which is esteemed superior to brass for the centre pins of engines to turn upon, is found in the hundred of …
A New History of London
… British graves, in which were found ivory and wooden pins in abundance of about six inches long, used possibly to …
A New History of London
… it appeared upon inquiry that the missing of these iron pins was owing to the neglect of the workmen, who supposed …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… window, panel with carrier's implementsrope, hook, packing pins and a type of hammer, 16th or 17th-century with modern …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… CLAY. Sources: Acts. References: Tomlinson (1854). Bridges pins [bridges best pins] Probably PINS made in BRUGES, also known as 'bridges' in this country. …