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A GOLD AND ENAMEL MOURNING RING FOR LORD NELSON, BY JOHN SALTER, 1806
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A GOLD AND ENAMEL MOURNING RING FOR LORD NELSON, BY JOHN SALTER, 1806

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A GOLD AND ENAMEL MOURNING RING FOR LORD NELSON, BY JOHN SALTER, 1806
THE BLACK ENAMEL FIELD INSCRIBED TRAFALGAR in gothic letters mourning ring with 'N B' over, surmounted with coronets for a duke and a viscount, applied to a plain gold band engraved on the inner edge Lost to his Country 21 Octr 1805 Aged 47 and on the outer with Nelson's motto PALMAM QUI MERUIT FERAT (Let he who has earned it bear the palm)
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Lot Essay

An historic mourning ring in commemoration of Lord Nelson. Of the fifty-eight examples of this ring made by Salter, thirty-one were for Nelson's close family and friends, the rest for pall-bearers and other dignitaries (see The Nelson Dispatch, Vol.3, pt.XII, Oct. 1990.

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