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Sorry, have just seen I already said all the above previously!

Ah, it's good to know they've gone to a good home :blush:. For more info, my grandmother was one of the first women to quality as Chartered Accountant - she had been orphaned at 10, so needed to earn a crust. She was hired by a firm in Birmingham who had a client that was a nunnery - so they...

No, I just sold them at auction yesterday - a single pin (on a Selfridges card) had previously fetched £1,300, and my set went for £220 - less than I had hoped, but at least they will now be with a collector who values them (they had just sat in a drawer for decades in my house!)

The ones I had for the dolls house were much smaller - the card was about an inch long - so I guess yours are the real thing, the ones people bought and used! It's clear that the dolls house ones were the same in terms of the logo and writing at the bottom.

Oh, the dolls house was nuts... a big Empire effort to make the best ever dolls house, with all the famous folk of the day contributing... read more here https://www.rct.uk/collection/stories/queen-marys-dolls-house I can see now that the shield has a cross in the middle, with G and G top left...

Goodness, can't believe I've been so daft... just zoomed in on my card of 6 pins and there is a shield with GG on it the middle, under the third pin! Will need a better camera to figure out what it says.

Hi all I wonder if anyone knows about the safety pins that George Goodman Ltd provided for Queen Mary's Dolls' House? I have a card of six teeny safety pins which my grannie was given when she audited a company in Birmingham in about 1935. She became a chartered accountant in the early 1930s...