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Description: | Silver dress hook comprising triangular pinked backplate with three applied hemispheres with filigree spirals and knops. At the centre, a flower-shaped element made from silver sheet, with dome-headed gilt pin at the centre. This pin attaches the flower element to the backplate with a butterfly clip. The front and top of hook gilt. At the top, a recurving hook soldered onto the backplate; remains of rectangular attachment bar on reverse. 16th Century.
A type commonly recorded through the Treasure Act, see an example 2003 T85 post-medieval silver-gilt dress hook from Duxford, Cambridgeshire, Treasure Annual Report 2003, no. 232.
In terms of age and as the object contains a minimum of 10% precious metal it qualifies as Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996 (Dr Dora Thornton, Curator of Renaissance Collections, The British Museum). | 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: | 1500
1599 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Naomi Payne | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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