https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/templates/general_wide/img/logo.png https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/jewellery-and-dress-accessories.html https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/jewellery-and-dress-accessories/necklaces-pendants-and-crucifixes/crucifix-59176.html Sun, 08 Mar 2026 22:05:47 GMT Necklaces, pendants and crucifixes  

Description:		A hollow, cast brass crucifix with an integral suspension loop and a wire chain loop. Inserted into the hollow frame is a separately cast brass figure of Christ mounted on a wooden cross. The figure is secured to the frame with three metal pins through the hands and crossed feet. This type of crucifix was usually hung from a rosary.
Category:		Post-Medieval to Modern, Jewellery and dress accessories, Necklaces, pendants and crucifixes
Category:		Necklaces, pendants and crucifixes

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/jewellery-and-dress-accessories/finger-rings/finger-ring-59173.html Sat, 07 Mar 2026 14:46:42 GMT Finger rings  

Description:		A large copper-alloy finger ring of uniform, shallow D-shaped cross-section. The external surface is decorated overall with a crudely executed pattern of variously orientated oblique grooves.
Category:		Post-Medieval to Modern, Jewellery and dress accessories, Finger rings
Category:		Finger rings

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/jewellery-and-dress-accessories/pins-hat-stick-tie-etc-/crown-59137.html Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:06:16 GMT Pins (hat, stick, tie, etc.)  

Description:		This is the surviving element of a commemorative tie-pin produced for the coronation of King George VI in 1937, a white metal (silver-plated) crown with red and blue faceted glass stones. On the back of the crown are the remains of the fixtures that attached the crown to the tie-pin bar.
Category:		Post-Medieval to Modern, Jewellery and dress accessories, Pins (hat, stick, tie, etc.)
Category:		Pins (hat, stick, tie, etc.)

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/jewellery-and-dress-accessories/brooches/brooch-fragment-59041.html Tue, 25 Nov 2025 14:59:05 GMT Brooches  

Description:		A small embellishment from a late Victorian silver bar brooch. The embellishment, which was probably one of several, is in the form of two entwined hearts with punched decoration. On the back of the hearts are two lines of solder for attachment to the bar.
Category:		Post-Medieval to Modern, Jewellery and dress accessories, Brooches
Category:		Brooches

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/jewellery-and-dress-accessories/brooches/twisted-frame-brooch-58984.html Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:54:01 GMT Brooches  

Description:		A small openwork 'twisted frame' brooch fabricated from a single length of coiled, circular-section copper-alloy wire. The hinge and C clasp survive; the pin is missing.
Category:		Post-Medieval to Modern, Jewellery and dress accessories, Brooches
Category:		Brooches

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/jewellery-and-dress-accessories/pins-hat-stick-tie-etc-/pinhead-58933.html Sat, 18 Oct 2025 14:00:11 GMT Pins (hat, stick, tie, etc.)  

Description:		The jewelled silver head of a ball-headed pin. The pinhead is divided vertically into four equal segments by a fitted filigree-wire cage. Each of the four segments has three vertically aligned and symmetrically arranged collets, and there is an additional collet at the top centre. The collets at the centre of the segments, and the one at the top of the sphere, are larger than those at each end of the segments. The larger collets hold red gemstones and the smaller ones hold light-blue gemstones, most likely garnet and turquoise respectively. The filigree wire cage is fitted tightly, but not soldered, except possibly at the base. It is constrained laterally by the grooves into which the four vertical wires are fitted, and vertically by a ring of the filigree-wire that fits around the collet at the top centre. At the bottom centre of the sphere, there is a hole where the (missing) shaft of the pin was fitted. The pinhead is most likely inspired by the art and jewellery of Merovingian France (mid 5th - mid 8th century AD), but we believe it is a relatively modern reproduction. A pin of very similar type, described as an 'Antique Victorian Austro Hungarian Garnet Turquoise Silver Gilt HatPin' (see Image 3), for example, has recently been sold online, and we have traced several other items of reproduction jewellery that adopt a similar theme.
Category:		Post-Medieval to Modern, Jewellery and dress accessories, Pins (hat, stick, tie, etc.)
Category:		Pins (hat, stick, tie, etc.)

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/jewellery-and-dress-accessories/pins-hat-stick-tie-etc-/hat-pin-58671.html Tue, 01 Jul 2025 10:57:29 GMT Pins (hat, stick, tie, etc.)  

Description:		A Charles Horner silver hatpin of the Art Nouveau period. Comprising the sinuous openwork head, which terminates with the socket that held the probable steel shaft, now missing. The pin appears to be hallmarked, but is not quite legible enough to be certain of the exact date.
Category:		Post-Medieval to Modern, Jewellery and dress accessories, Pins (hat, stick, tie, etc.)
Category:		Pins (hat, stick, tie, etc.)

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/jewellery-and-dress-accessories/pins-hat-stick-tie-etc-/pin-fragment-58625.html Thu, 15 May 2025 08:05:33 GMT Pins (hat, stick, tie, etc.)  

Description:		The upper hemisphere only of the hollow spherical head of a silver-plated copper-alloy pin of the early post-medieval period. The external surface of the hemisphere has twisted filigree wire and granule decoration in an ornate trefoil arrangement. For a more complete pin of generally similar type, see UKDFD 9460.
Category:		Post-Medieval to Modern, Jewellery and dress accessories, Pins (hat, stick, tie, etc.)
Category:		Pins (hat, stick, tie, etc.)

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/jewellery-and-dress-accessories/pins-hat-stick-tie-etc-/star-shaped-dress-accessory-58504.html Fri, 14 Mar 2025 17:58:31 GMT Pins (hat, stick, tie, etc.)  

Description:		A modern star-shaped 'Celestial Light of the Sky' object, most likely a dress accessory such as a hatpin or a lapel pin. The star would originally have been decorated with thirteen glass gems of various colours, a large one in the centre and two progressively smaller ones radiating outwards on each of the six rays. The circular indentations into which the glass gems were set are now all empty. The back of the object is flat and has a central mark that suggests it originally had a projecting shaft for attachment. In the absence of the attachment shaft, the specific use of the object is uncertain. However, recently made 'retro' products of generally similar form (as advertised for sale on Etsy at the time of writing - see Image 3) are described with suggested potential use as various dress accessories and items of jewellery, including both hatpin and lapel pin. Larger examples may have been used as ornamental mounts to decorate jewellery boxes, etc.
Category:		Post-Medieval to Modern, Jewellery and dress accessories, Pins (hat, stick, tie, etc.)
Category:		Pins (hat, stick, tie, etc.)

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/jewellery-and-dress-accessories/pins-hat-stick-tie-etc-/pin-58462.html Sat, 22 Feb 2025 17:31:11 GMT Pins (hat, stick, tie, etc.)  

Description:		A late medieval to post-medieval copper-alloy pin. The head of the pin is plain and of solid spherical form. It is fitted, and probably soldered, to a parallel drawn wire shank, the opposite end of which is tapered to a point. Cf. PAS: NMS-70601F
Category:		Post-Medieval to Modern, Jewellery and dress accessories, Pins (hat, stick, tie, etc.)
Category:		Pins (hat, stick, tie, etc.)

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