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Description: | A corroded cast baluster seal knop from a copper-alloy ('latten') spoon handle. There is a stub of the stem of the handle surviving: enough to show that its cross-section was sub-circular with a diameter of c. 4.3mm. The knop design is relatively simple, consisting only of a baluster, which flares out to a diameter of 10.7mm, and the seal top. The sub-circular seal top, c. 17mm diameter, is flat on the upper side and covered in iron corrosion. This type of spoon knop was common from the mid-16th to the mid-17th century. Moore (1999, 5) attributes their contemporary popularity to the fact that the owner's and donor's initials could be pricked or engraved onto the disc. On this example there seems to be no engraving, however it may be masked by the iron corrosion. Moore (1999, 5) also highlights the fact that such knops were cast separately and then soldered to the handle; this perhaps explains the nature of this fragmentary survival. Other spoon knops can be cross-referenced on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database, for example the more elaborate NARC-A13613 and HAMP-202033. This example is reddish-brown, with patches of a light-green patina.
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