A steel dog collar, lockable and adjustable, made individual by the engraving of an inlaid brass plate, in this case with the name and address of JAMES BROOK, BIDDENDEN.
Undoubtedly from the Birmingham workshop of Thomas Griffin Hiatt.
Open length:16 5/8 inch
Hiatt and Company enter the Birmingham trade directories during the last quarter of the eighteenth century, around 1780, when Thomas Hiatt set up shop at 26 Masshouse Lane in Birmingham. He advertised as a maker of ‘Prisoners’ Handcuffs, Felon’s Leg Irons and Gang Chains’. He also made dog collars to the pattern of this example, many of which are stamped with the Hiatt name, and locking collars or bangles to identify ownership. On page 384 of ‘Marking Time, Objects, People, and their Lives’, is an entry for an Ankle or Leg Iron’, the text goes on to state that a similar shackle is held at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, which has been described in the past as a ‘Slave Ownership Bracelet’ and ‘identification band’.
Item Code: 5415
£ 695
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