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• n  a decorative pin that is worn in a necktie

• Theatre Man Al Hayman, who gave him his diamond stickpin, left him a $1,000 mink-lined coat, silk under wear, $25 shirts.
• Through the door came Their Majesties, snugly buttoned up, and as they passed down the line each servant received either a gold stickpin or a pair of gold cufflinks, blue .
• The new office boy told the boss he had two ambitions: to become manager and get a diamond stickpin.

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• Black Bart: Man of culture led secret life of crime
  In the 1870s and 1880s, a certain well-spoken, finely groomed man was a regular fixture in respectable San Francisco society. Unfailingly polite and with a droll sense of humor, the prosperous mine owner was always impeccably dressed in a tweed suit with a velvet-collared topcoat, his cravat fastened with a diamond stickpin, an elegant bowler on his head. The policemen, businessmen, city ...
  March 29, 2014 - San Francisco Chronicle