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Description: | Silver sheet knife end cap of two part construction, sides and top. Six-sided with two opposing straight sides, and four opposing concave sides. The top plate is flat, with a large central repoussé fluted dome, and at the shorter of the two straight edges, rolled back to create a small hook or bar at the edge. Each of the sides are decorated with an engraved rectangular field, filled on the straight sides with a lozenge divided almost into four with short impressions in each quarter and on the concave sides with an opposing tripartite foliate motif on crosshatched fields. The bottom edge of each side is concave. Now slightly distorted. Cf. another elaborate but dissimilar engraved knife end cap in Baart and Regteren Altena, 1977, 332, afb.630, and a simple example with a similar hook (Baart and Regteren Altena, 1977, 327, afb. 616). Date: c. 16th century. Dimensions: Height including dome 19.5mm, length 20mm, width at maximum 15mm, width at hooked end 9mm. Weight 4.14g.
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