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Description: | Sterling silver trefoil-looped dress fastener with a setting and knop soldered to the central loop. The style of the piece looks Georgian but the recorder can find no comparanda. The hallmark is made up of the lion passant for sterling silver, the anchor for Birmingham, and the third stamp, the date letter, is illegible, but looks like a capped letter within a shield shape stamp. Birmingham started marking silver in this way in 1773, and the date letter follows immediately after the anchor between 1773 and 1783.
The maker?s mark looks like ?C Z?? | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1773
1783 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Anna Tyacke | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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