plete lozenges. Glass of this type appears to be 

 unique in Virginia but is paralleled by fragments 

 found in a trash pit on the site of a tenement that 

 stood on the corner of Old Jewry and Frederick's 

 Place in London. These date from the second 

 quarter of the 18th century and are now in the 

 Guildhall Museum in London (see p. 178). Sur- 

 face, Bl, 1)1, E2, E3, K2, Ol. 



Figure 18 



Silver half-ecu. Reverse: Bourbon shield uf arms 

 beneath crown and legend "sit. nomen. domini. h. 

 (mint mark) benedictvm" (Blessed be the Name of 

 the LordJ followed by the date 1719. Obverse: 

 Lauriate head of Louis XV in right profile with 

 legend reading "lvd. xv. d.g. fr. et. nav. rex"; 

 edge inscription, "domine**** salvvm f.ac**** 

 regem." (See p. 174.) E2. 



Figure 19 



1. Shoe buckle, pewter. Surface molded in relief 

 with two barrels flanked by flowers and the words 

 "no excise" at either end (see p. 166). 1763-1770. 

 A2. Enlarged drawing, fig. 7. 



2. Shoe buckle fragment, and tongue and tines. The 

 buckle is silver-plated brass with ridged and notched 

 ornamentation. The iron tongue and tines came 

 from the same pit area as the buckle fragment but 

 they are not necessarily from the same buckle. 18th 

 century. H2. 



3. Button, silver-plated brass. Back slightly conical 

 with a U-shaped brass wire thrust into the apex; 

 diameter ^%f inch. Second half of 18th centur\ . 

 K2. 



4. Sleeve buttons or links, sih-er. Octagonal; en- 

 graved with stylized flower within a diamond; 

 small, somewhat flattened loops with single oval 

 link; small oval on back of one button may be an 

 illegible maker's mark.^^ Probably second quarter 

 of 18th century. E3. 



5. Button, gilded brass. Shell type; embossed with 

 rosette in thread style; originally possessed bone 

 back similar to no. 10. 18th century. F2. 



" See Faith Russell-Smith, "Sleeve-Buttons of the Seventeenth 

 and Eighteenth Centuries," The Connoisseur, London, 1957, vol. 

 139, no. 559, p. 36ff; and Ivor Noel Hume, "Sleeve Buttons: 

 Diminutive Relics of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Cen- 

 turies," Antiques, April 1961, vol. 79, no. 4, pp. 380-383. 



6. Boss or large button, brass with iron nail or shank 

 mounted within small collar on the hollow reverse. 

 Diameter 1^^ inches Size and shape suggest that 

 it may have been a harness ornament. 18th 

 century. J2. 



7. Button, pewter. Back missing; front decorated 

 with molded rose; probably a British naval button; 

 diameter 'Jig inch. First half of 18th century. L2. 



8. Button, brass. Hollow-cast type; small brass 

 shank, the wire rectangular in section; casting hole 

 on either side of shank; diameter 'fs inch. Buttons 

 of this type found in the Revolutionary cemetery 

 at the Governor's Palace in Williamsburg have been 

 described as French military buttons."* 18th cen- 

 tury. F2. 



9. Button, silver-plated brass. Flat with round-sec- 

 tioned wire loop; front surface somewhat scratched, 

 which might indicate a rough attempt at decoration; 

 diameter 'Ke inch. Second half of 18th century. 

 Surface. 



10. Bone back for button of type illustrated by no. 5. 

 Carefully made; somewhat convex with edge tooled 

 to take rim of brass front; central hole drilled to 

 take a wire shank; diameter Jie inch. 18th century. 

 C2. 



11. Miniature padlock with brass key. Iron mech- 

 anism and brass casing; probably from a jewel box. 

 The height is % inch and the thickness 5 mm. The 

 key protrudes % inch. Because the mechanism was 

 so rusted, no attempt was made to extract the key. 

 18th century. E3. 



Figure 20 



1. Curtain ring, brass. Rolled metal, a method of 

 manufacture considered to be later in date than 

 that used in making no. 2. 18th century. Surface. 



2. Curtain ring, hammered brass with filed edge. 

 18th century. F2. 



3. Buzz or whirligig, brass or copper. Roughly 

 serrated edge; two holes through center. 18th cen- 

 tury. (See p. 174.) N2. 



4. Ounce weight, bronze. On opposite sides of a 

 small collared lug in the center of the upper surface 

 are the mark "V«" and the figure "16"; thickness 

 of disk 5.5 mm. 18th century. F2. 



5. Ramrod thimble, ribbed brass. Made from strip 

 of brass curved to form circular tube % inch in 

 diameter; ends of strip flattened together and pressed 



"8 Calver and Bolton, np. cil. (footnote 42), p. 228. 



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