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Title: Strap end?? Post by: roaljodaka on August 03, 2014, 02:23:50 PM Hi found this today, it is very delicate looks like strap end as it has a split down centre of it, it has a nice little pattern but seems to made of some sort of lead ???
Title: Re: Strap end?? Post by: Chef Geoff on August 03, 2014, 02:28:33 PM Looks like a pewter spoon handle from here, pewter does tend to corrode in layers so that could explain the split ;)
Title: Re: Strap end?? Post by: roaljodaka on August 03, 2014, 02:34:08 PM Ah right so it prob is pewter, but thinking little small for spoon handle, not much age to it then.
Title: Re: Strap end?? Post by: Chef Geoff on August 03, 2014, 02:39:15 PM 18th-19thC it would have been bigger than that but the edges flake away :-\
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