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TOY
Unique ID: LON-60302A
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Incomplete Lead alloy Post Medieval (c.AD17th-18th Century) toy mirror with open work design. Mirror has a decorated top with an integral hanging loop, below which is scroll work and the outer frame. The outer frame is decorated with attached pellets groups of three at the corners and in the middle of the frame with one placed in between. This is connected to the inner frame by diamond fret work decorated with pellets and ridged to resemble rope. The inner frame has a medial ridge and on the inside is beaded. There are three points on the outer frame where it has been folded over as if to hold a backing sheet in place. Forsyth and Egan type 2 mirror.
Length: 51.09mm, Width: 33.38mm, Thickness: 0.9mm, Weight: 3.9g
Ref: Forsyth, H. and Egan, G. 2005. Toys, Trifles and Trinkets. Base Metal Miniatures from London 1200 to 1800. Unicorn Press, London.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 51.09 mm
Width: 33.38 mm
Thickness: 0.9 mm
Weight: 3.9 g
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Region: London (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Greater London Authority (Greater London Authority)
District: City and County of the City of London (London Borough)
Parish or ward: Queenhithe (London Borough Ward)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ3280
Four figure Latitude: 51.5035277
Four figure longitude: -0.09955492
1:25K map: TQ3280
1:10K map: TQ38SW
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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