Large, pointed, and deadly, hatpins were effectively open stabbing weapons in public. The newspapers were full of stories of people being stabbed in the face, and in the worst case, in the eye.

A display case from the 1880s lay ready to be burned on a scrap heap in Bodø A random passerby stopped, looked closer, and saved what is now one of the main objects in the Made in Bodø exhibition.

In the Nordlandsmuseet collection there is a rune bar from Bjørsvik in Nordfold in Steigen The object entered the museum's collection in 1976.