Show WHEN PINS WERE VALUABLE in years year gone by the humble household utensil was wa given much consideration the custom of 0 making presents prea enta on now new yeas day Is now practically obsolete among english speaking people the day of gift giving now being christmas when pins were first invented and brought into use about the beginning of 0 the sixteenth century they were a new years gift very acceptable to ladles ladies and money given for the purchase of them was called pin money this expression has since been extended to money settled by a husband on his marriage for the private expenses of his wife pins made of metal in their present form were in use some time before the year 1543 1643 it was during the reign of henry VII that an acte tor for the true making of pentes tes was made in witch which it was enacted that the price should not exceed 6 shillings 8 pence a thousand pins had previously been made of box wood bone and stiver for the richer classes tb those used by the common folks were ware made of common wood and were in fact skewers |