Description:

Northwestern Europe, England, Post Medieval / Tudor period, ca. 15th to 16th century CE. A collection of 6 pewter, brass, and bronze dress hooks for securing garments and a pilgrim badge, each with a decorative boss. The largest consists of openwork twisted wires above a hook, the backplate once contained a raised bar for stitching to the garment. Four of the bosses include hooks and bars and ornamental features such as a low relief cherubic face, a rosette above the Christian "IHS" monogram, another rosette, and an openwork trefoil shaped rope. The quatrefoil piece may be a pilgrim's badge and depicts a faint low relief bust of a figure, perhaps an archbishop. Dress hooks were decorative clothing accessories used to fasten outer garments or to drape up skirts in Great Britain and the Low Countries during the Medieval and Tudor periods and materials such as bronze and pewter were affordable to many of the "middling class." Size of largest: 1.5" L x 0.8" W (3.8 cm x 2 cm)

Provenance: ex-Estate of Eldert Bontekoe, Pegasi Numismatics, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA acquired before 2000

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#158643

  • Condition: Missing bar on largest hook, and missing bar / pin on quatrefoil piece. Some softening to details and bending to hooks and bosses. Old inventory numbers on the surface of 3. Mineral deposits and patina on all. Overall good condition.

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