Object number
68/226
Description
This is a dog collar, which is an adjustable brass animal collar which has 4 different slots for fixing. It has a harp through which a padlock would probably have been fixed. This collar is originally from Cockfield Hall, Suffolk, the seat of Sir Charles Blois Bart. Cockfield Hall is a large mansion in the Tudor style in a park skirted on the south by River Yox or Muiswere. It passed from the Brook family to Sir Charles Blois of Grunuisburgh who was made a baronet in 1668.
Physical description
1 collar: brass
Archival history
MERL ‘Accession form’ (Institute of Agricultural History) - ‘COLLAR // LIVESTOCK // F. J. Rutter Epsom, Aukland, N.Z. // Description: Adjustable brass animal collar which has 4 different slots for fixing. It has a harp through which a padlock would probably have been fixed. // Dimensions: Diameter: 26-30cm, Width: 6cm, Length: 99cm // Associated information: Cockfield Hall on the north side of Yoxford, 4 miles from Saxmundham is the seat of Sir Charles Blois, Bart. And is a large mansion in the Tudor style in a park skirted on the south by River Yox or Muiswere. It passed from the Brook family to Sir Charles Blois of Grunuisburgh who was made a baronet in 1668.’
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- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\60 series negatives\60_9558.tif - High resolution image
- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\60 series negatives\60_9559.tif - High resolution image
