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Estimate
GBP (£) 8,000 - 10,000
EUR (€) 9,350 - 11,690
USD ($) 10,160 - 12,700
14TH CENTURY AD
1"
A gold finger ring comprising a cusped D-section hoop with shoulders formed as facing beast-heads with triangular bezel, inset facetted sapphire; two lines of Anglo-French Lombardic text to the hoop '+ QVI.CA.MENVEIA: / IA:DAMOR:NE.TRICERA', translates to 'He who sent me shall never deceive in Love'.
PROVENANCE:
Property of a London gentleman; acquired before 1995. Accompanied by a positive X-Ray Fluorescence metal analysis certificate.
LITERATURE:
See Chadour, A.B. Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 581 for type; and exactly the same inscription meaning 'He who sent me shall never deceive in Love' occurs on a ring brooch in the British Museum reg.no.AF2689: cf. Evans J. English Posies and Posy Rings, Oxford, 1931, p.5.
