https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/templates/general_wide/img/logo.png UKDFD Recording Software https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ Furniture fittings https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/furniture-fittings.html Hinge https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/furniture-fittings/hinge-58985.html Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:58:42 GMT Furniture fittings Hinge  
Description: One leaf of a small copper-alloy hinge. The leaf is of openwork design with a trefoil terminal. It has two rivet holes, one at the barrel end and one in the terminal, the latter retaining an iron rivet. Probably from a small piece of furniture or possibly a book.

For other hinges of similar type, see UKDFD 43653 (complete hinge) and UKDFD 17583.
Category: Post-Medieval to Modern, Furniture fittings
Category: Furniture fittings
]]> Hinge https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/furniture-fittings/hinge-58177.html Mon, 26 Aug 2024 19:50:04 GMT Furniture fittings Hinge  
Description: A copper-alloy hinge from a small box or casket of the Elizabethan/Jacobean period. Comprising two identical sub-triangular plates with cusped protrusions on the outer edges, a circular aperture at the centre, and three small rivet holes in triangular formation for attachment purposes. The plates are hinged on an iron spindle which remains in situ and are locked together with the internal surfaces showing, as the external surfaces are no longer visible it is not possible to determine whether they may have originally been decorated.

See PAS: SUR-2C0F0B as generally similar

Category: Post-Medieval to Modern, Furniture fittings
Category: Furniture fittings
]]> Acorn-Shaped Mount https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/furniture-fittings/acorn-shaped-mount-57602.html Wed, 13 Sep 2023 14:59:08 GMT Furniture fittings Acorn-Shaped Mount  
Description: A solid brass finial cast in the form of a simplified acorn. Acorns are generally regarded as a sign of fertility, they are widely used to decorate many forms of furniture, this example would be equally at home on a fire grate or a bedstead. 
Category: Post-Medieval to Modern, Furniture fittings
Category: Furniture fittings
]]> Keyhole Cover https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/furniture-fittings/keyhole-cover-57432.html Tue, 30 May 2023 11:54:54 GMT Furniture fittings Keyhole Cover  
Description: A rotating keyhole cover, with the partial remains of the furniture keyhole escutcheon attached. The cover is gilded with Rococo style acanthus leaf ornamentation that has a certain zoomorphic, owl-like quality to it. The top part of the keyhole escutcheon is rounded, and attached to the back of the cover with an iron pin.
Category: Post-Medieval to Modern, Furniture fittings
Category: Furniture fittings
]]> Furniture Drop Handle https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/furniture-fittings/furniture-drop-handle-56868.html Wed, 06 Jul 2022 11:15:38 GMT Furniture fittings Furniture Drop Handle  
Description: A furniture drop handle, complete with mount and escutcheon. The cast handle is sub-triangular with a decorative barrel moulding at the centre of its basal side. The other two sides are separated at the apex and terminate in pierced discoidal suspension lugs. The mount is a separate cast element, which is riveted to the centre of the escutcheon and furnishes the inner lug from which the handle is suspended. The axis bar connecting the handle and mount survives intact. The escutcheon is I-shaped and probably made from stamped sheet. It has an openwork 'rosette' at the centre and trilobate ends, each of which is drilled for attachment. The drilled holes are now filled with iron rust from decomposed fasteners.
Category: Post-Medieval to Modern, Furniture fittings
Category: Furniture fittings
]]> Furniture Handle Post https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/furniture-fittings/furniture-handle-post-56809.html Thu, 05 May 2022 13:46:59 GMT Furniture fittings Furniture Handle Post  
Description: A furniture handle post complete with circular escutcheon (handle backplate), threaded lower stem and nut for a loop-type drawer handle.

See parts; UKDFD 53708, UKDFD 54398 & UKDFD 52267
Category: Post-Medieval to Modern, Furniture fittings
Category: Furniture fittings
]]> Spandrel https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/furniture-fittings/spandrel-56697.html Sat, 19 Mar 2022 00:00:03 GMT Furniture fittings Spandrel  
Description: An incomplete cast brass openwork spandrel from a longcase clock. Comprising a cherub's head and one arm of the decorative corner piece. This would be one of the mounts found in the four corners of the clock face.

Category: Post-Medieval to Modern, Furniture fittings
Category: Furniture fittings
]]> Spandrel https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/furniture-fittings/spandrel-56695.html Fri, 18 Mar 2022 23:31:27 GMT Furniture fittings Spandrel  
Description: A sub-triangular openwork brass spandrel from a longcase clock. The spandrel depicts two cherubs supporting a crown, the small cross from the top of the crown is missing. Spandrels of this type are found in the four corners of the clock face.
Category: Post-Medieval to Modern, Furniture fittings
Category: Furniture fittings
]]> Furniture Mount https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/furniture-fittings/furniture-mount-56419.html Sun, 17 Oct 2021 14:16:15 GMT Furniture fittings Furniture Mount  
Description: A copper-alloy die-stamped furniture mount. The mount is circular with high relief bands of concentric decoration around a flat-topped centre boss.
Category: Post-Medieval to Modern, Furniture fittings
Category: Furniture fittings
]]> Furniture Escutcheon https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/furniture-fittings/furniture-escutcheon-55878.html Sun, 14 Mar 2021 12:12:13 GMT Furniture fittings Furniture Escutcheon  
Description: A circular cast copper-alloy furniture escutcheon (handle backplate) with a circular central hole. The front of the escutcheon is decorated with a relief-moulded twelve-petalled flower within a cabled border.
Category: Post-Medieval to Modern, Furniture fittings
Category: Furniture fittings
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