... Copper-alloy pins, pin fragments, and at times green stainingresulting from the total decay of a pin lying against bone were found with all butfour of the bodies interred in the Patuxent Point burying ... company’s advertising recommends‘‘Dorcas’’ pins for dressmaking.29 In the second half of the nineteenth century, the mass production of pins co-incided with the introduction of cheaper steel ... lillikins, lillskins,minnikins, minifersTiny pins, less than half an inch in length and less than four hundredths of aninch in diameter, were known variously as minnikins, minifers, lillskins,...