THE ORIGIN OF 'PIN MONEY.'
Pin money is a lady’s allowance of money for her own personal expenditure. Long after the invention of pins in the fourteenth century the maker was allowed to sell them in open shop only on the Ist and 2nd of January. It was then that the court ladies and city dames flocked to the depots to buy them, having been first provided with money by their husbands. When the pins became cheap and common the ladies spent their allowances on other fancies, but the term pin money remained in vogue.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XV, Issue XXIV, 14 December 1895, Page 758
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95THE ORIGIN OF 'PIN MONEY.' New Zealand Graphic, Volume XV, Issue XXIV, 14 December 1895, Page 758
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