Pin And Chain
Photographs only came along only once in a while. This was the age before smart phone selfies, an age when a portrait was an event. An event to get out your Sunday best and put on your best pin and watch chain.
You can decide which jet of nostalgia is turned on by this advert which I found in my copy of the 1931 Souvenir Book of the Historical Pag...
I also think a gentleman's pins and watch fobs were often very clearly in focus to draw attention to their membership in some fraternal society.
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