While I was sitting writing a cheque for Christine Springett at Havant,
someone asked her about bent pins. She said that they no longer had the
connections with whoever it was that took the pins for scrap and raise money
for charity.
It could have something to do with the scrap merchant wanting a
Does anyone in the UK know where we can send bent pins please?
Bent brass pins were collected by Springetts from all over the UK...and each
year they'd
take the collection to a metal merchant and sell them to be melted down and
recycled. Springetts gave the money they received for the pins to
Hi,
Does anyone in the UK know where we can send bent pins please?
My lace group always used to give them to Christine Springett and then
Fountains.
We used to save them all year and then someone would take them to the NEC.
We haven't heard of anywhere we can send them now and wonder if it's
: [lace-chat] bent pins
Okay why do you save them, and what gets done with them?
Lynn, Wollongong, Australia
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- Original Message -
From: Anne Nicholas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lace-chat@arachne.com
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: [lace-chat] bent pins
Hi Lynn,
A good question but it definitely was something to do with charity !!
I think they might have been melted
