Hello to the list:)
Anyone know when safety pins in their simple wire form patented in 1849
(Hunt) were changed by the addition of the sheet metal guards around the
heads? I'm archaeologically relocating a slave/Reconstruction cemetery in
central Tenn. and most of the burials contain safety pins down what would be
the back of the interments. Skeletal preservation has been slim:(
Dan Allen
Cumberland Research Group, Inc.
and GRA; the Center for Historic Preservation @ MTSU