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LOT 0417
Sold for (Inc. bp): £11,160
POST MEDIEVAL GOLD 'I AM A TOKEN OF LOVE' POSY RING WITH PYRAMIDAL DIAMOND
16TH CENTURY AD
1" (7.63 grams, 25mm overall, 17.38mm internal diameter (approximate size British N 1/2, USA 7, Europe 14.51, Japan 14)).
16TH CENTURY AD
1" (7.63 grams, 25mm overall, 17.38mm internal diameter (approximate size British N 1/2, USA 7, Europe 14.51, Japan 14)).
A gold finger ring with D-section hoop, flared shoulders, plaque with eight scooped petals surrounding an inset pyramidal diamond; inscribed to the inner face '+ SVM SINGNUM AMORIS' (I am a token of love).
PROVENANCE:
Property of a UK gentleman; acquired from a London gallery in the late 1980s; formerly from a private European collection, formed in the 1960s and 1970s. Accompanied by X-Ray Fluorescence metal analysis certificate 00905-2017PR.
LITERATURE:
See Chadour, A.B. Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 633 for type.
FOOTNOTES:
'SINGNUM' is a spelling error for 'signum', a sign or token.
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