These are unusually fine 19th-century bone bridge pins with heart-of-abalone dots that are larger than usual, quite rare. They also have little holes laterally through them just under the heads, if one wants to thread...

A lovely and most unusual set of four bone bridge pins from the 19th-century. Rather than having pearl dots inlaid into them, they’ve got concentric circles lightly cut into the tops with a diminutive inset depression...

I’ve been accumulating older bridge pins here since the early 1960s; 19th-century ones of bone, some with abalone dots, early-mid 20th-century ones, mostly from older Martins. Some are in complete sets, some are partial...