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Description: | Post Medieval cast copper alloy 'dandy' button dating to the . The button is made of tombac (an alloy of mostly copper and zinc with some other elements) giving a silvery appearence. The button has a flat back and front with a icopper alloy loop soldered in the cnetre of the reverse. The front has an incised pattern of a cnetral flower with a boder roundf the outer edge formed of short straight diagonal lines which abut each other giving a twisted rope effect; the areas between the lines contain groups of three and four transverse lines, adding to the rope effect.The patterns on 18th century tombac buttons were hand incised and are therefore vary variable, decorative borderrs and flowers are popular motifs. See Bailey (2004) p.52, no. 90 and 94 and p55, no.118 for example.
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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