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LOT 1805
Tudor Period Tinned Bronze Betrothal Ring with Arrow
CIRCA 16TH CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (12.11 grams, 23.32 mm overall, 19.10 mm internal diameter (approximate size British R 1/2, USA 8 3/4, Europe 19.38, Japan 18)).
With octagonal plaque and chamfered edges, incuse design including an arrow and enigmatic pseudo-text. [No Reserve]
ProvenancePrivate collection formed since the 1940s.
UK art market.
Property of an Essex gentleman.
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 613, for type.
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