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Description: | Silver domed button, circular in plan and convex in profile, with an incised floral motif in the form of alternating lozenge-shaped short leaves and long petals around a central perforation that is 2.4 mm in diameter. Each petal has incised bifid curvilinear oblique veins running down its length to the edge of the button, and each leaf has incised scaled lozenges filling the entire area. The field between the petals and beyond the ends of the leaves is plain. The back of the button is hollow and plain with no hallmarks or makers marks. The button has a dent running across one side and a crack where this has been stepped and bent over, probably caused by plough damage.Read (1988) illustrates a mount with engraved fleuret and foliate decoration within a border of punched crescents on page 148, No.997, which is dated from the 17th century.Read (2005) illustrates several domed discoidal buttons with similar incised fleurets on pages 39-40, Nos.130-135, which are dated from the 17th century.
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