An antique gold slide, the bezel enclosing woven hair with applied motif depicting a skeleton and child above a sarcophagus with the legend - MEM-TO-MORI, the reverse engraved and dated 1597, later mounted as a ring.

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An antique gold slide, the bezel enclosing woven hair with applied motif depicting a skeleton and child above a sarcophagus with the legend - MEM-TO-MORI, the reverse engraved and dated 1597, later mounted as a ring.
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