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Description: | A silver gilt hooked tag (dress hook) of 16th to 17th century date. The hooked tag consists of a rectangular plate with seven lobed knops projecting from it, one from each corner and one from the centre of three sides. From the fourth side projects a larger knop in the shape of a crude fleur de lis, this masks the join between the plate and the hook. The plate is 8.41 mm long, 6.8 mm wide and 1.52 mm thick (including the knops it is 14.42 mm long by 9.56 mm wide). The front is decorated with moulded recessed areas in the shape of a heart with a trefoil of recessed pits below, all contained within a raised rectangular border.On the back of the plate a curved loop made of silver sheet has been added with solder. The loop rises at right angles to the plate then turns inwards at 90 degrees in curved corners. The loop is 6.49 mm long, 2.4 mm wide and 0.86 mm thick. Opposite the loop is a silver wire hook. It is circular in section, 1.8 mm in diameter at the widest point and 10.85 mm long. The hook is curved through 180 degrees and narrows to a point which ends at approximately the same point as the start of the fleur de lis on the front. The attachment end of the hook has been flattened and widened with two holes at the centre of the upper side which may contain rivets or solder (rivets are not visible on the front of the plate).The fastener is silver and almost all of the gilding on the front plate survives.Hooked tags of this type were popular in the 16th to 17th centuries and were used as clothing fasteners. They were manufactured in many different forms. This hooked tag is of Read's early post-medieval Class D, Type 1 (Read 2008, pages 59-61). Two almost identical examples are illustrated by Read (page 61, numbers 189 and 190), although these are incomplete and lack their soldered loop. Read provides them with a firm 16th century date (2008, page 59). These were also Treasure cases, with Treasure reference numbers 2007 T05 and 2004 T308 respectively. Another almost identical example, this one with a complete soldered loop on the reverse, is recorded on this database as SUSS-8322F7, Treasure reference 2009 T228.In terms of age and as the object contains a minimum of 10% precious metal it qualifies as Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996.
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