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Description: | An incomplete silver gilt hook piece from a hook and eye dress fastener, dating from the seventeeth century. The dress fastener consists of a disc with an added wire loop soldered on to the reverse. The disc has an applied twisted filigree border and is decorated with three repousse knops each with their own applied twisted filigree border. There are also four applied pellets, one central and three equidistantly distributed around the edge of the disc in the angles between the domed knops. Each of these three pellets have their own circlet of twisted filigree. The attachment loop is formed of a single silver wire and consists of two small loops for sewing the fitting to textiles and a hook of double wire width (the curved part of which is missing).The disc is 8.7mm in diameter and is 1.2mm thick at the rim. The wire forming the attachments is 1.1mm in diameter. The dress fastener as it survives is 11.3mm long, 8.72mm wide and 3.16mm thick.For comparative examples see LVPL-EADE47 (2008T213) and YORYM-592277 (2004T450)This object is more than 300 years old and contains a minimum of 10% precious metal. It therefore qualifies as Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996.
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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