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AN HISTORICAL EARLY 18TH CENTURY DIAMOND RING
The bezel set with three table-cut diamonds, with chased scroll and foliage shoulders and fluted back, reeded hoop, mounted in silver and gold, early 18th Century, finger size N
Provenance: An accompanying display board states that the ring was given by Queen Anne to her nurse Mrs Farthing, and by her to her grand-daughter, who married the Rev. William Peter. A statement in ink, written in a secretarial hand and signed by Martha Farthing with the countersignature of Edmund Themythorpe as witness, reads 'Martha ffarthing the wife of John ffarthing Esqre maketh oath, that she this daye was wett nurse and did give sucke to her present Matie Queene Anne for the space of ffifteene monthes or thereabouts, and that she this daye was the only wett nurse to her present Matie'
Martha Farthing Jurat XVI die Julii 1702:
apud Norwich coram me
Edm: Themythorpe
$900-1,200
The bezel set with three table-cut diamonds, with chased scroll and foliage shoulders and fluted back, reeded hoop, mounted in silver and gold, early 18th Century, finger size N
Provenance: An accompanying display board states that the ring was given by Queen Anne to her nurse Mrs Farthing, and by her to her grand-daughter, who married the Rev. William Peter. A statement in ink, written in a secretarial hand and signed by Martha Farthing with the countersignature of Edmund Themythorpe as witness, reads 'Martha ffarthing the wife of John ffarthing Esqre maketh oath, that she this daye was wett nurse and did give sucke to her present Matie Queene Anne for the space of ffifteene monthes or thereabouts, and that she this daye was the only wett nurse to her present Matie'
Martha Farthing Jurat XVI die Julii 1702:
apud Norwich coram me
Edm: Themythorpe
$900-1,200