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LOT 894
18th Century - Gold Inscribed Posy Ring - 'Hurt not that (heart) whoes Joy thou art'
(4.51 grams, 21.77 mm, internal 19.20 mm (UK size S; USA size 9.5; EU size 20.38; Japan size 19.5).).
Circa 18th century AD. A gold finger ring with a legend inscribed around the interior in an italic hand: ‘Hurt not that [heart] whoes Joy thou art’, the word ‘heart’ represented by a heart-shaped ideogram, and the ‘s’ of ‘whoes’ in its long form.
ProvenanceFound Norfolk.
LiteratureCf. Joan Evans, English Posies and Posy Rings, Oxford, 1931 p.48 example from Sullington, Sussex.
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LOT 894
18th Century - Gold Inscribed Posy Ring - 'Hurt not that (heart) whoes Joy thou art'
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