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LOT 1487
Tudor Period Ring with Armorial Intaglio
CIRCA 16TH-17TH CENTURY A.D.
1 1/8 in. (5.89 grams, 28.05 mm overall, 19.70 mm internal diameter (approximate size British T 1/2, USA 9 3/4, Europe 21.89, Japan 21)).
A ring composed of a slender hoop with octagonal bezel, set with an armorial glass intaglio; remains of polychrome enamelled cells to the vertical faces of the bezel. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Cambridgeshire in the 1990s.
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