Finger-Ring Lore

Everything a Victorian antiquary could gather about rings: betrothal and mourning, poison rings and papal rings, the superstitions attached to every stone, and the rings dug from the presumed site of Troy.

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Historical Rings

56 $ Rings used by, or belonging to, Historical Persons. 57 t Rings commemorating Historical Events. 58 u Rings emblematical of particular Persons, Events, or Countries.

RELIGIOUS. 59 b Devotional (Decade). 60 w 61 x Rings bearing Religious Devices or Inscriptions.

Rings bearing Figures or Emblems of Saints. 62 y 63 Rings for containing Reliques.

Pilgrims' Rings (Ferusalem, Mount Serrat, &c.).

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