Hand-Pin

6th-7th century (Early Medieval)

2.2 cm 22 cm 1.9 cm

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Called a "hand-pin" because it resembles the palm of the hand with the fingers pointing out at right angles, this pin served as a cloak fastener. Hand-pins were fashionable in Ireland and Scotland in the 6th and 7th centuries. Originally the five pellet "fingertips" along th...

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Robert Day, Cork: Robert Day Sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, May 19-22, 1913, no. 357; Patrick O' Connor, New York; Walters Art Museum, 1950, by purchase.
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