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LOT 0332
Georgian 'In Unity Lets Live & Die' Gold Posy Ring
18TH CENTURY A.D.
3/4 in. (1.37 grams, 19.64 mm overall, 17.97 mm internal diameter (approximate size British P 1/2, USA 7 3/4, Europe 16.86, Japan 16)).
A slender annular gold band inscribed in cursive hand to the interior: 'In Unity lets live & die', followed by maker's mark 'JK' within a rectangular cartouche.
ProvenanceFound Romney Marsh area, Kent, UK.
Property of a Kent gentleman.
Cf. The British Museum, museum number 'posy ring AF.1315', for a very similar ring with this inscription and seemingly the same maker's mark; it is noted that this maker's mark has not been identified in any standard reference works; believed active c.1755-1764.
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