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LOT 1807
Post Medieval Silver Fede Ring
CIRCA 17TH-18TH CENTURY A.D.
3/4 in. (2.47 grams, 21.13 mm overall, 17.88 mm internal diameter (approximate size British P, USA 7 1/2, Europe 16.23, Japan 15)).
With bezel formed as two hands clasping; with transverse cuffs and paired roundels. [No Reserve]
ProvenancePrivate collection, Arundel, West Sussex, UK, 1975-late 1990s.
LiteratureCf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, items 727, 729, for type.
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