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Description: | Silver dress fitting with lozenge-shaped plate with bevelled edges, knop at lower point and pierced loop for suspension at upper point. Soldered onto the back and thin flap of silver, broadening out at the unattached end, stamped in the middle with maker's mark GM with pellets in a heart-shaped field, possibly a heavily-worn version of the mark GM with bird below in a dotted border, in a heart-shaped field, recorded in Jackson, Silver and Gold Marks, ed. Ian Pickford, p. 117 on a communion cup hall-marked for London 1636-7. The flap broken off at the end.The function of this object is unclear. If the mark is correctly identified, then this would date the object to around 1630-40. Consequently, due to its age and precious-metal content, this object qualifies as Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996.
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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