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Description: | Post-medieval silver gilt composite dress hook. Trefoil back-plate cusped around the edge supporting three hemispherical bosses, each with a filigree wire circle around the base, and three large filigree wire circles on their surface. Within and between each circle is a pellet surrounded by a small filigree wire circle, some of which are missing. There is a further pellet at the top of each dome between the three larger circles. A separate un-gilded silver octofoil disc at the centre of the three bosses is secured by a gilded dome-headed butterfly clip through the back-plate. There is a separate rectangular sectioned rectangular loop for attachment soldered to the reverse, with a scar where the missing hook would have been soldered into position. The impression from the cuttlefish mould is just visible. Cf. a similar from Staxton, North Yorkshire (Gaimster et al, Antiq. J. 2002, 163, fig.5). 16th century.Length 17mm. Width 19mm. Weight 4.07g.
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