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LOT 1963
Silver Memento Mori Ring with Skull and Snakes
19TH CENTURY A.D. OR LATER
1 in. (10.11 grams, 26.62 mm overall, 18.12 mm internal diameter (approximate size British P, USA 7 1/2, Europe 16.23, Japan 15)).
With D-section hoop expanding at the shoulders to a facetted bezel, openwork flower bud to each shoulder, incised hatched triangles to the scooped facets above, 'MORS' inscribed to the upper panel, 'SOIFI' to the lower; pale gold insert to central cell engraved with a skull amid entwined snakes. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Acquired since before 1970.
Ex private collection of a West Sussex, UK, collector.
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