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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 142, 18 June 1934, Page 16

In the ancient ritual of marriage the ring was placed by the husband on the top of the thumb of the left hand, with the words, "In the name of the Father," He then removed it to the forefinger, adding, "and of the Son"; then to 'the middle finger, adding, "and to the Holy Ghost"; and, finally, he left it, as now, on the fourth finger, with the closing word, "Amen." When pins were invented and brought ir.to use, about the beginning of the sixteenth century, they were a New Year gift very acceptable to ladies. Money given for the purchase of them was called "pin money," an. expression which has been extended to a sum of money secured by a husband on his marriage for the private expenses of hie wife. Pins of metal, in their present form, must have been in use prior to 1543, in which year wae passed a statute entitled "An Acte for the true making of Pynnee." It enacted that the price charged should not exceed 0/S per thousand. Pins were previously made of boxwood, bone and silver, for the richer classes; thoso used by the poor were of common Avood —in fact, skeAvers.