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.

X. Remarkable Rings

3 pages in this part of Finger-Ring Lore.

X. Remarkable Rings

PAGE PAGE Egyptian gold signet-ring 2 Roman ring of coloured paste. 28 Egyptian bronze rings 4 Gallo-Roman ring representing Egyptian…

X. Remarkable Rings: Roman

Etruscan ring with scarabæus Etruscan ring with representation of two spirits in combat 20 20 Etruscan ring with intaglio 21 Roman ring in…

X. Remarkable Rings: Decade

Memorial rings, Charles I. 366, Catherine (?) G e 249 367, 370 Decade thumb-ring 249 Royalist memorial ring 370 Silver decade ring 250…

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