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Description: | A complete, Georgian-Modern, die-stamped, silver alloy, subrectangular shoe or clog clasp. Between 1790 and 1810 some wooden-soled shoes were fastened with pairs of metal clasps. The same clasps were also worn on clogs from c.1850. First in the Lake District, before spreading to Lancashire and Yorkshire, being widely used in mill towns and the countryside. Textile mill girls normally wore traditional clog-clasps and they remained in use until the 1920's.This is a rather elaborate clasp with wavy/scalloped sides and down turned anchor shaped hook at one end. The clasp has a worn engraved floriate decoration and there is also a rather worn maker's mark 'N.D' on the back of the anchor shaped hook. It is worn with reasonably good silver colour but with a slightly grey tarnish on the surface. Ref. Detector Finds, Gordon Bailey, Greenlight Publishing 1992, page 13-17 no. 40 & 43 and History Beneath Our Feet, Brian Read, Anglia Publishing Ipswich 1995, page 178-179 no. 1217 & 1218. The clasp is 23.43mm long, 12.99mm wide, 2.53mm thick and weighs 1.5g.
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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