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1910 · ref. 16878 — Birmingham England: Stratnoid later Stratton & Co. n.d. ca. 1910. Three board panels with two cloth spines connecting boards. Bound in dark blue leather with gilt title. . Folding triptych display 8" x 11". With thirteen original Stratnoid silver hatpins nickel-plated eight with attached printed paper labels "Stratnoid Untarnishable heads". Also with three mounted illustrated advertisements for hatpin stands and sets of pins: the Collapsible Junior Stand the Collapsible Senior Stand and the De Luxe Collapsible Stand. A paper strip labeled in manuscript identifies which pins are part of the Junior Senior or De Luxe Stand sets. With spaces for the fifteen other hat pins in the set not present. Cracking and wear to joints and some chipping to leather. Some rubbing to extremities. Pins stuck into blue velvet pad with sheet of protective felt. Some foxing to felt and some light toning inside. A very good copy of a rare item. Stratnoid or Stratton and Company after 1920 was founded in 1860 as a producer of knitting needles. By the twentieth century the company was a major producer of powder compacts lipstick holders jewelry hat pins and other metal accessories. Business boomed in the late Victorian and early Edwardian eras as actresses like Lillie Langtry and Lillian Russell began wearing large elaborate hats secured with pins. b b b The hatpins in the present item feature the special Stratnoid Untarnishable heads which were warrantied for ten years and were designed in a variety of shapes like a stylized golf club an acorn and more. The collapsible stands would have been used to display the pins in women's stores and millinery shops. Stratnoid (later Stratton & Co.), hardcover