Two wooden vessels with copper-alloy fittings

Mayer card says 'remains of a wooden drinking cup with bronze edging'. No wood specimens left. What appears to [to be associated with] this number is a single bronze clip with remains of wooden rim held in its rivet. Clip made of single piece of sheet bronze with curved ends, doubled over wooden rim and riveted. Wood grain runs diagonally in section.Whether this single clip really was all that was meant on the Mayer card is hard to say. Certainly it bears no resemblance to the cup figured by Faussett.Cf. also the cup remains, much more substantial, numbered M 8475 (or M 8435), without card or provenience unless they really come from Sibertswold grave 69.The copper-alloy mounts, M 8475, mentioned in the SCH card are from a larger vessel than described by Faussett, and differ in detail from Faussett's original drawing of the cup (compare the number of vertical strips and of the rivets in them). M 8475 is therefore listed as one of the 'unprovenanced' objects in the Mayer Collection. – B.B.