Medieval Silver '+OF CANFILD' Hawking Ring or Vervel

CIRCA 16TH CENTURY A.D.

3/8 in. (1.35 grams, 10.92 mm overall, 7.69 mm internal diameter).

Plain hoop inscribed in large seriffed capitals '+ OF CANFILD' for Canfield in Essex. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.

Literature

See Lewis, M. and Richardson, I., Inscribed Vervels, Oxford, 2019.

Footnotes

The lost pair of this vervel would have borne the name of the bird’s owner.

CONDITION

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