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LOT 0308

Sold for (Inc. bp): £845

MEDIEVAL SILVER MERCHANT'S RING
14TH-15TH CENTURY A.D.
1 1/8 in. (16.11 grams, 29.84 mm overall, 21.96 mm internal diameter (approximate size British W 1/2, USA 11 1/4, Europe 25.66, Japan 24)).

A silver finger ring with tiered ribbing to the shoulders, gussetted panel beneath the bezel, stepped trumpet-shaped plaque with incuse design of 'PHS' above a merchant's mark between stars; European workshop.

PROVENANCE:
Acquired in the late 1980s-early 1990s.
Important North West London collection.

LITERATURE:
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, 643, for type.

CONDITION
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