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LOT 2302
Silver Memento Mori Ring with Skull and Crossed Bones
LATE 19TH-EARLY 20TH CENTURY A.D.
7/8 in. (3.27 grams, 21.21 mm overall, 17.47 mm internal diameter (approximate size British N, USA 6 1/2, Europe 13.72, Japan 13)).
Playing-card bezel with baroque scrolls to the shoulders, incised shield-shaped headstone with skull and crossed long bones above 'Pvlvis / es' legend and three crosses below; stamped to reverse '800'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Arundel, East Sussex, UK, private collection, 1970s-2000.
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