Post Medieval Gold 'MY (heart) AND (eye) UNTIL I DIE' Posy Ring

18TH CENTURY AD OR LATER

3/4" (5.09 grams, 21 mm overall, 18.19 mm internal diameter (approximate size British P 1/2, USA 8, Europe 17.15, Japan 16)).

A plain D-section hoop with inscribed text to the inner face in seriffed capitals '*MY [heart] and [eye] UNTIL I DIE*' with pictograms for heart and eye.

Provenance

Property of a gentleman; acquired by his father in the 1970s, thence by descent.

Literature

Cf. Evans, J. English Posies and Posy Rings, Oxford, 1931, p.78 for examples of 'My heart and I until I die' with heart pictogram.

CONDITION

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LOT 1071