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Description: | An enamelled cast copper alloy buckle frame of mid to late seventeenth century date. The trapizoid double loop buckle measures 44.2mm long by 23.4mm wide and 2.2mm thick. It weighs 9.3grams. The outside edges are expanded to a central point. The pin is made of sheet and wrapped almost completely round the narrowed strap bar. The front of the buckle is decorated with a series of recesses filled with green and white enamel. The sides each have 4 rectangular cells filled with white, green, green then white enamel. In the corners of the expanded sides are triangular cells of green enamel and in the point are three petal shaped recesses filled with white enamel.According to Geoff Egan, the manufacurers of these buckles also produced enamelled buttons, stirrups and ornate candlesticks. This material was being made at the time of the Commonwealth and later (if not slightly earlier as well). The range was formerly known as 'Surrey enamels' from a mistaken attribution to a foundry there, but it has recently come to light that known makers in London were responsible. See C. Blair, 'Surrey' enamels reattributed' in the Journal of the Antique Metalware Society, vol. 13, 2005, (part 1) pp. 2-9; vol. 14 (part 2 with A. Patterson), pp. 10-21. Two similarly decorated, but more elaborately shaped buckles have been recorded on the database, SOM-BB0BB4 and NMS-CDABE7.
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