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Description: | A complete Post Medieval silver gilt dress pin, 16th century. The pin has been drawn from a thick silver wire, and measures approximately 52.9mm in length. It has been soldered into a highly-decorative spherical cast silver head that measures 10.16mm in diameter. The head has been divided by a raised border into two hemispheres. The lower hemisphere has been decorated with four raised bosses each contained within a border of extremely fine twisted wire filigree. Aligned with the centre of each boss, but located outside the border at the base is a metal droplet. There is also a droplet within the centre of each separating the bosses. The upper hemisphere is decorated with an identical pattern of four bosses, but here the bosses are aligned with the angles between the bosses below, and therefore the bosses below are aligned with the angles above. In the very centre at the top point of the spherical head, the space above the four bosses is filled with five further droplets arranged in four points around a central pellet. Just beneath the pin head, the shaft of the pin has been stamped with the end of a tool three times to create a V-shaped maker's mark, of two outer lines pointing diagonally towards each other but not meeting and a central shorter line vertically in between them. The entire pin-head has been gilded, and retains for the most part a golden surface colour. The silver pin itself has tarnished to a brown-black colour in places. Dimensions: length: 62.37mm; diameter: 10.16mm; weight: 3.84g.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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