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Tudor Period Tinned Bronze Ring with Crowned Shield Tudor Period Tinned Bronze Ring with Crowned Shield Tudor Period Tinned Bronze Ring with Crowned Shield
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LOT 1939

Tudor Period Tinned Bronze Ring with Crowned Shield

CIRCA 16TH CENTURY A.D.

7/8 in. (7.58 grams, 22.78 mm overall, 19.25 mm internal diameter (approximate size British M 1/2, USA 6 1/4, Europe 13.09, Japan 12)).

With chamfered edges and pointillé band to the rim of the ebzel, octagonal plaque with low-relief heater shield on a wreath with crown above. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Private collection formed since the 1940s.
UK art market.
Property of an Essex gentleman.

Literature

Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 613, for type.

CONDITION
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LOT 1939

Tudor Period Tinned Bronze Ring with Crowned Shield

Sold for (Inc. bp): £52

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