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Description: | Cast silver-gilt dress hook with heart shaped cushion at front, and tear shaped backplate and scalloped edge. The front is a raised hollow cast cushion in the shape of a heart, which is decorated around the circumference with nine filigree double circlets, each separated with a knop. At the centre is a filigree heart containing three filigree single circlets. The filigree heart is surrounded by knops, and above the heart is a single circlet. At the bottom of the cushion, three small knops are surmounted by a larger knop. On the backplate, the bar still survives, the tip of the hook has broken away, the base of the hook where it has been soldered to the backplate remains intact.A similar, but smaller, heart- shaped dress hook from Paignton, Devon (2006 T617), can be seen in Treasure Annual Report 2005/6, number 648.As the item is more than ten percent silver and is over three hundred years old, it would qualify as Treasure under the Treasure Act 1997.
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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