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.

Ornamental Rings

5 pages in this part of Finger-Ring Lore.

Ornamental Rings

69 ff Rings with Precious Stones, according to their kind. APPENDIX. 70 gg Rings set with enamels, paste, or other ornaments, having no…

Ornamental Rings: Irish

GEM Gems mounted in Roman rings, 30, 40 Gemmel rings, 313, 318 Gentlemen formerly distinguished by rings, 446 George III., ring-token to…

Ornamental Rings: Mary

POP Medical amulet-rings, 147, 161 Medici, rings of the, 471 Mediæval romances, charmed rings in, 121 'Memento mori' rings, 372 Memorial…

Ornamental Rings: British

Blaize, 221 Boccaccio's fable of the three, 451 - offered as bribes, 444 of British, Saxon, and mediæval times, 53 British Museum…

Ornamental Rings: Virgin

RIN Rings, 'Vertuosus,' 162, 355 offered to the Virgin, 130 watch, 494 in wedding cakes, 170 possets, 173 given at wrestling-matches, 195…

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