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Both paintings, from 1926, are sinister and chilling: one of the "pillars," a bureaucrat, wears a swastika tiepin, grips a fencing sword, and has a cavalry officer on horseback rising from inside his neatly sliced-open cranium.

Wu Tiepin. (1984) "Chinese and Chinese Marriages" in Chinese Character Culture, Vol.

A much-loved Olympic tiepin presented to her at the 1976 Montreal Games and a canteen of solid silver cutlery also disappeared.

Conder remembers "the man who drowned his wife at Shoreham, flushed and neat in the dock with a tiepin in the shape of a horse's head; the widow of the grocer who drew the Derby winner and who, dead drunk the same night, drove his car into the Thames, a widow with 20,000 [pound] of her own; she said, 'I've always been lucky at such things, raffles, I mean, and so on"' (135).

He would always show up for the visit wearing a pair of brightly polished shoes, a starched collar, and an ostentatious tiepin of extravagant poor taste.

But I think I knew he was a sham when I saw that big, shining tiepin."

(9.) "My Pen," or "mY peN," was published in Custom & Exile (London: Allison & Busby, 1985); in Tiepin Eros: New & Selected Poems (Newcastle: Bloodaxe Books, 1994); and in hoyoot.

She wore a necklace featuring a pearl tiepin that had belonged to her late grandfather and carried a bouquet of white hydrangeas, roses, and Phalaenopsis orchids.

Two pairs of cufflinks once owned by Ronnie fetched nearly pounds 15,000 and a tiepin and ring also brought in the bidders.

If you liked it enough to spend some more cash, you could have it mounted into ring, tiepin, as a dropper on a gold chain or as half of a pair of earrings.

Unit members have also now been banned from wearing a tiepin featuring a cobra, seen as a symbol of the OSU, because of fears they look "elitist", the source added.

There's also Sawyer's own Fario Club silk tie, crested blazer badge, tiepin and cuff-links which will be a good lot for the ephemera collector.

Before the priest could reply, a joyous band of bagmen rolled into the room like a shoal of porpoises; and the magnificent bellow of a big, beaming man, with an equally big and beaming tiepin, brought the eager and obsequious manager running, with a rapidity the police in plain clothes had failed to inspire.