CHATELAINE 985268

Description: A fragment of a post medieval or Victorian copper alloy dress lifter. This object is the upper part of one of the arms of a set of dress lifters. The arm and is circular in cross section with two small grooves towards the scoop end, which would have held a deocrative band in place. At the other end is a broken rivet hole that would have attached to a second similar arm creating the pivot section that would have lifted the dress - this element is now missing.The object has been bent and distorted slightly. Length: 83.06 mm Width: 6.07 mm Thickness: 6.63 mm Weight: 6.71 g See database record WREX-12145C for a silimar item. A complete example of a dress lifter can be seen in database record IOW-5769C4, although the arms are of a different form.

Date: 1700 - 1900

Object type: CHATELAINE

Last import: September 22, 2022