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LOT 2011
Post Medieval Inscribed Bronze Signet Ring
CIRCA 17TH CENTURY A.D.
7/8 in. (5.33 grams, 22.39 mm overall, 18.30 mm internal diameter (approximate size British Q, USA 8, Europe 17.49, Japan 16)).
The hoop expanding at the shoulders to an oval bezel, ornamental dashing to the shoulders and inscription over three lines to the bezel. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Private collection formed since the 1940s.
UK art market.
Property of an Essex gentleman.
Literature
See Bequest, F., Catalogue of the finger rings Early Christian, Byzantine, Teutonic, Mediaeval and later, London, 1912, no.610, for the typology.
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