✅ SOLVED Hook, hanger sort of thingy

[mile-ender]

So, it's small - 1½". Great design, and at one point was gilded. Any ideas?

 

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[bigfoot1]

cant help ya...but congrats very cool find.I once saw a travel trunk(1800s)with a couple hangers like it inside.not for clothes,but for smaller stuff.

 

[Breezie]

It's a late Victorian picture/portrait hanger. Here's another one that was just found recently; it's shaped differently, but still a picture hanger.
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/w...p-found-within-charleston-sc.html#post3287426
Neat find Breezie

 

[mile-ender]

Bang on Breezie!
Antique English Gilt Brass Picture Rail Hooks by thelongacreflea
Who'd a thunk?
Thanks

 

[yaxthri]

It's a late Victorian picture/portrait hanger. Here's another one that was just found recently; it's shaped differently, but still a picture hanger.

Breezie it seems you have IDed quite a lot of these hangers this year, going for a record of some sort? Hahahaha

 

[Breezie]

Breezie it seems you have IDed quite a lot of these hangers this year, going for a record of some sort? Hahahaha

Yax, it's a tough job, but sumbuddy has to do it!

 

[fireford10]

what does gilded mean??

 

[Breezie]

what does gilded mean??

Gilded is when an object has a thin layer of gold leaf or gold paint.


Breezie

 

[fireford10]

oh cool. thanks

 

[unclemac]

the house i was raised in had 12 foot ceilings with "picture molding" around the base of the cove way up high. the idea was that instead of pounding through the plaster and lathe you hang these decorative hooks way up high and suspend mirrors and pictures off of them down lower on wires.