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Details
A 16TH / EARLY 17TH CENTURY GOLD SIGNET RING
The oval bezel with engraved armorial bearing a shield with chevron between three beast heads, possibly talbots, beneath a plumed and crested closed helmet, within a cable border, the bezel reverse engraved with the initials S B H with star motif, ring size I
The oval bezel with engraved armorial bearing a shield with chevron between three beast heads, possibly talbots, beneath a plumed and crested closed helmet, within a cable border, the bezel reverse engraved with the initials S B H with star motif, ring size I
Provenance
From an English collection acquired prior to 1990
Literature
C.f. O.M. Dalton. MA, Franks Bequest, Catalogue of the Finger rings, Early Christian, Byzantine, Teutonic, Medieval and Later, London, 1912, nos. 600-601 for signet rings of similar date and type
Further details
With accompanying photocopied research relating the armorial and initials to the Hall, Sherrington and Bannaster family which was established during the 16th century