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.

Rings from the Earliest Period. P

4 pages in this part of Finger-Ring Lore.

Rings from the Earliest Period. P

COUNTERFEIT rings belong to all ages and peoples. Hall, in his 'Satires,' says :- Nor can good Myron weare on his left hand A signet-ring…

Rings from the Earliest Period. P: Westminster

For boat-hire to Westminster and home again for the suit in the Chancery began in the old warden's time, for the recovery of a counterfeit…

Rings from the Earliest Period. P: Talbot

The coat-of-arms engraved on this ring consists of Quarterly of four: 1. Talbot, a lion rampant, with a bordure engrailed; 2. Strange, two…

Rings from the Earliest Period. P: Etruscan

In the splendid collection of rings belonging to Mr. R. H Soden Smith, F.S.A. (one hundred and forty specimens of which, dating from…

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