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DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Unique ID: PAS-813F05
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Silver dress fitting with lozenge-shaped plate with bevelled edges, knop at lower point and pierced loop for suspension at upper point. Soldered onto the back and thin flap of silver, broadening out at the unattached end, stamped in the middle with maker's mark GM with pellets in a heart-shaped field, possibly a heavily-worn version of the mark GM with bird below in a dotted border, in a heart-shaped field, recorded in Jackson, Silver and Gold Marks, ed. Ian Pickford, p. 117 on a communion cup hall-marked for London 1636-7. The flap broken off at the end.
The function of this object is unclear. If the mark is correctly identified, then this would date the object to around 1630-40. Consequently, due to its age and precious-metal content, this object qualifies as Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996.
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: East Surrey Museum
Subsequent action after recording: Acquired by museum after being declared Treasure
Treasure details
Treasure case tracking number: 2008 T63
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1630
Date to: Circa AD 1640
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st December 2007
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Other reference numbers
Treasure case number: 2008 T63
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Surrey (County)
District: Tandridge (District)
To be known as: Outwood
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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