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Description: | Stamped sheet copper alloy belt clasp, part of a pair, with an eye which would have attached to a corresponding hook, or may have been sewn on to clothing. The clasp has a rectangular eye, 38 mm long and 2 mm wide, which tapers to an inner edge with five arches, echoed in the outer edge in a semi-circular formation, and joined by sides stamped with an inner and outer border of pellets. Within this frame, there is openwork decoration consisting of two birds in flight, one above the other, flying towards a swastika with outer edges at right angles, which connect with a strap to the sides of the frame. The clasp may have been used on military uniform, perhaps the German air force.Read (1988) illustrates a similar belt clasp from South Devon on page 178, No.1206, bottom right, which is dated from the 19th century.Wilkinson-Latham (2002) illustrates a military waist-belt clasp with similar rectangular eyes on page 44, Plate 12, which dates from c.1874-1881.
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