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HAT PIN: PEARLISED BEADS, OWNED BY NEWMAN FAMILY

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One of a pair of hat pins of pearlised beads in fan shape, with filigree metal support at base and metal rin gs on eight top beads. Hat pins from the home of the Misses Newman (two sisters), on the corner of Kershaw and Hamersley Roads, Subiaco. Hat pins used to secure hats on hair and prevent the hats blowing off.

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Hat pins from the home of the Misses Newman (two sisters), on the corner of Kershaw and Hamersley Roads, Subiaco. Hat pins used to secure hats on hair and prevent the hats blowing off.

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cwa-org-43-2003.37.2

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COSTUME ACCESSORIES

Photographed 2023

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Example of hat pins worn 1920s, 1930s, 1940s

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-31.952592792545, 115.82740245294

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