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CHATELAINE
The silver chatelaine is an ornamental clasp worn in daytime at a woman's waist, attached to a belt of
girdle with a hook-plate from which are suspended several (usually five but up to
nine) shorts chain terminating with rings of swivel catches to which are attached
various small objects for daily household use.
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Chatelaines were made of silver, gold, pinchbeck, cut steel and were ornamented with
enamelling, beads, beaded tassels, and sometimes medallions of Wedgwood's jasper.
They came into use in England in the 17th century and were very popular in the 18th
and 19th centuries, but c. 1830 declined in use as fashionable jewelry and were worn
only for utilitarian purposes.
This is a Victorian silver six chains chatelaine made in London in 1870 by silversmith H.W.D.
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