Image description: Flag flying before the Haberdashers' Hall, West Smithfield, City of London.

In Elizabethan times, the Haberdashers' Company was associated with the importation, and then production, of pins. Due to the extraordinary usefulness, but also costliness, of pins, well-off gentlemen were soon required to issue their wives with 'pin-money'.

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