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Description: | Silver gilt dress-hook with a square-shaped back-plate cut from a sheet and cusped around the edge, which is perforated. A separate hook and bar loop have been soldered to the back. Attached to the front of the plate by solder is a hollow silver gilt box with three panels, each decorated with a pair of hollow hemispherical bosses, surrounded by fine filigree and plain rods demarcating panels. The is a cast fleur-de-lys above the pin and the junction with the base, and there are pellets between the bosses. The back of the baseplate is engraved with an 'X' or 'V' and an 'ω', presumably maker's marks. Gilding does not extend along the full length to the hook. Overall length including hook 30.05mm; width of back-plate 15.1mm; length of box 13.2mm; depth of box 5.5mm; weight 4.8g. The dress-hook has not undergone any cleaning or conservation. The box form of this decorative dress-hook is closely paralleled by an example from Cranbrook, Kent (Treasure Annual Report 2003, no. 234), and similar forms from Wanborough, Wiltshire (Treasure Annual Report 2000, no. 183), Chelsham Court Farm, Chelsham, Surrey (Gaimster et al 2002, 166 no. 8), and Arreton, Isle of Wight (Treasure Annual Report 2005-6, no. 656). Documentary evidence indicates that these items were popular in the sixteenth century (the latest reference in an inventory being dated 1598; Gaimster et al 2002, 184).
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