stickpin

Max had gone west to seek his fortune, and upon her blouse collar, Mrs. Brenner bore proof of his success—a tiny nugget of raw gold fashioned into a stickpin.

My first professionally published work appeared in Ms., and I still have a stickpin with the magazine’s logo — remember stickpins and how popular they were in the ’80s?

As a further token of their host’s esteem, each male guest also received a gold watch and a diamond stickpin.

In her hands, stickpins, drinking straws and plastic foam cups blossom into thrilling biomorphic forms.

This man was wearing an immaculate white suit, a pale blue shirt and a yellow satin tie with a bright stickpin.