MODERN MOUNT

A complete copper alloy book or box mount or clasp of the Modern period, dating from c. AD 1850 - c. AD 1940.The mount is broadly trapezoidal in plan and rectangular in section. The left side of the object is longer than the right, and the edges are curved or wavy all around the object. It is decorated in an Art Deco style design of the sun's rays shining onto rolling hills as seen through a fence panel. The fence panel has been decorated with rectangular regions decorated with pellets with rectangular perforations between. The sun's rays are depicted as six diagonal and slightly curved bars, that travel from the top left corner to just below the centre. Each bar has been decorated with inci

The Portable Antiquities Scheme, via Europeana.