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Description: | Description: A silver gilt dress fastener. A hook piece with filigree decorated plate. The plate is cinquefoil with scalloped edges around the foils. On each foil is a dome decorated with two applied filigree wire circles and all are glided. At the centre between the domes is a single domed rivet of gilded silver. Around the rivet is a separately applied silver rove which is not gilded and is tarnished to a dark grey colour. The rove is quite damaged, but appears to have comprised several small pierced projections (traces of five remain). The back of the plate is flat and bears file marks. At the back is a backward curved, pointed hook soldered to the plate. Above this are two patches of solder where a separate bar was applied, probably for sewn attachment to fabric.Date: Post medieval - 16th to 17th century Dimensions: 22.80 mm x 16.65 mm x 8.34 mmWeight: 3.78 g Discussion: Such dress accessories are generally of high silver content and date to the 16th to 17th centuries A silver gilt dress fastener. A hook piece with filigree decorated plate. The plate is cinqufoil with scalloped edges around the foils. On each foil is a dome decorated with two applied filigree wire circles and all are glided. At the centre between the domes is a single domed rivet of gilded silver. Around the rivet is a separately applied silver rove which is not gilded and is tarnished to a dark grey colour. The rove is quite damaged, but appears to have comprised several small pierced projections (traces of five remain). The back of the plate is flat and bears file markes. At the back is an backward curved, pointed hook soldered to the plate. Above this are two patches of solder where a separate bar was applied, probably for for sewing attachment to fabric.Date: Post medieval - 16th to 17th centuryDimensions: 22.80 mm x 16.65 mm x 8.34 mmWeight: 3.78 g
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