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LOT 1937
Medieval Bronze Ring with Warrior
16TH CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (7.78 grams, 24.23 mm overall, 19.54 mm internal diameter (approximate size British R 1/2, USA 9 3/4, Europe 19.38, Japan 18)).
The hoop with keeled shoulders with lines of pointillé decoration, a hexagonal bezel with an incuse stylised figure. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK and EU art market before 2000.
From the private collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
Cf. for the type Bailey, G., Detector finds 6, Witham, 2005, p.30, fig.C8.17 (hexagonal signet ring).
FootnotesThe finger rings worn by merchants and tradesmen were made of different metals. The commonest were in brass or bronze. The merchants and tradesmen ordered various devices to be engraved on the bezels of their rings, and sometimes they gave the appearance of heraldic blazons.
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Found Suffolk, UK. Property of a Suffolk, UK, gentleman.
The 'Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem' was an order of knighthood under the protection of the Pope, formed around 1099 AD by Duke Godfrey of Bouillon, the leader of the First Crusade. It was established for the protection of pilgrims travelling to the Holy Land and was recognised by a Papal Bull in about 1113 AD.
