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Description: | A copper alloy Post Medieval to Modern clog clasp inscribed with the motto: PEACE & PLENTY. It dates from the 18th or 19th century. The clasp is sub-rectangular with one end rounded. Projecting from the square end is a rectangular tab, now bent back flat against itself. Projecting form the rounded end is an anchor shaped hook, now also bent flat. The front is inscribed with the word PEACE above a wheat sheaf. Below that is a florid and idiosyncratic ampersand (&) and below that, the word PLENTY. The clasp is 28.4mm long, 14mm wide and 2.2mm thick. 1.75g.There are many clog clasps recorded on the PAS database, and 18th and 19th century clog clasps have also been published (Bailey 1992: 13-17), but none appear to have this motto. Other clasps with propergandist mottoes include SUR-A665E0 and SUR-D8AE6A which call for LIBERTY TO AMERICA. The PEACE & PLENTY motto is also found on an eighteenth century brooch (SUR-5EFB90), and on a late 18th century Condor token (http://www.abccoinsandtokens.com/DH.Kent.004.003.RP.html) issued by Thomas Reeves of Benenden, Kent (Dalton & Hamer, Kent, number 4). Irish tokens of similar date also bore the same legend and wheat sheaf motif.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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