Dress Hook

Description

A broken silver rectangular hooked tag which is rectangular and flat in section. It is now broken into five pieces. It seems to have had a rectangular plate with a large rectangular opening in the centre. The hooked end tapers to the hook which is circular in section and thicker than the plate. It appears to be undecorated. Read Class E type 1. 16th - 17th century.

Object number

NOLMS:2012.051

Object

DRESS HOOK

Production date

16th century - 17th century

Period

Post-medieval

Material

Silver

Technique

Cast

Dimensions

Length: 19mm
Width: 8mm
Depth: 3.5mm
Weight: 0.7g

Provenance

APPLEBY
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