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Stick 100 (a)
Gesso gilt: all gold a bright yellow except 

thin gold inlay on t end of fai blue faience knob which was 

dull brick red. Red colour came off readily with water + NH3
Stick 100 (b)
Found with (a)
Gilt on gesso in two wide[?] places.
Gold has a scarlet tinge in parts.

 

Buckle 44a
In 4 pieces, two having part of the design soldered 

on to the background the design being made of 

small round parts/<appl applied details such as wire> & tiny granules applied[?]/<soldered> to the 

background. Two without applied pieces. In 

both the gold is partly yellow + partly scarlet

In the first case the xxx[?] background is largely 

scarlet & the applied portions yellow. On one 

however there is a <separate> piece of gold soldered on & on this 

the background is yellow & most of the applied 

part xxx[?] is scarlet, except some tiny granules 

which are yellow. There is also a good deal of 

scarlet on the back. In the second case the 

scarlet is variably[?]/<irregularly> distributed on both face & back.