Straight Pin
Physical Object
1986.008.0872
Nuestra Señora de Atocha (1622)
circa 1620
Large and small copper-alloy straight pins are assumed to have been used with cloth, paper or any other easily pierced material. A wire shaft forms the body of the pins, and each has a head made of a separate piece of bronze wire that is wrapped around the end and fashioned into a ball-shape. The other end of the shaft is sharpened to a point.