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LOT 1874
Post Medieval Silver Ring with IHS
18TH-19TH CENTURY A.D.
7/8 in. (6.14 grams, 21.15 mm overall, 18.20 mm internal diameter (approximate size British P 1/2, USA 7 3/4, Europe 16.86, Japan 16)).
Ribbed shoulders with facing masks, octagonal bezel with ornate 'IHS' legend.
Provenance
Acquired on the London art market in the late 1980s-1990s.
From the family collection of an East London, UK, gentleman.
Literature
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 642.
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