ENGLISH, 16TH CENTURY
ENGLISH, 16TH CENTURY
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PROPERTY OF THE BAYREUTH COLLECTION
ENGLISH, 16TH CENTURY

A large gold signet ring

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ENGLISH, 16TH CENTURY
A large gold signet ring
the bezel inscribed with initials ‘E H’
UK ring size: X
Largest interior dimension: 24 mm
来源
With Daniel Packer, 2005.

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Lucy Speelman
Lucy Speelman Junior Specialist, Head of Part II

拍品专文

Signet rings, pressed into hot wax, were used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to seal letters and official documents such as wills or deeds. They were typically engraved with coats of arms, initials, merchant's marks, or personal symbols and worn on the forefinger or thumb. Both functional and ornamental, such rings also signified the wearer's status. A comparable example to the present lot, featuring the initials 'AF', is housed in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (inv. no. M.228-1975).

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