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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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 the Florentine Cabinet Roman 'memorial' gift-rings Anglo-Roman Anglo - Roman and Roman rings 39 41 e 41 42 Greek and Roman rings 22 Roman rings found at Lyons 43 Late Roman rings 23 Roman bronze ring of a curious Ring found at Silchester 24 shape. 44 Ring of a group pattern 0 24 Roman key-rings 45 Ancient plain rings 24 Roman rings, with inscription Iron ring of a Roman knight and monogram Roman ring, crescent-shaped 26 Roman 'legionary' ring ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE PAGE Roman 'legionary' ring Roman amber and glass rings.

Rings found in Pagan graves 48 Rings of the Frankish and Byzantine ring, from Montfaucon Merovingian periods 69, 70 49 Byzantine ring, found at Con- Gold Middle Age' ring, from the Louvre 71 stantinople 49 Rings on the effigy of Lady Rings from Herculaneum and Stafford 72 Pompeii 49 Enamelled floral ring 75 Roman bronze ring 50 Merchant's Mark rings 75, 87 Roman 'trophy' ring 50 Ring of the sixteenth century 76 Roman ring, from the Museum at Mayence 50 Roman key-rings . 51 Roman, late, from the Waterton Collection 52 Anglo-Saxon rings. 53 Ring of Frederic the Great Venetian ring Italian diamond-pointed ring Italian symbolical ring Venetian ring East Indian ring, with drops of 76 76 76 77 78 Early British (?) ring found at silver 78 Malton 54 Indian rings . . 79 Ring of King Ethelwulf. 54 Spanish ring • 79 Anglo-Saxon rings 58 'Giardinetti' or guard rings 79 Early Saxon rings found near French rings of the fifteenth Salisbury 59 and sixteenth centuries 80 South Saxon ring found in the 'Escutcheon' ring, French 81 Thames 60 French rings 81, 82, 83 Ancient Irish rings found near Moorish rings 82 Drogheda 61 Bavarian peasant's ring 84 Early Irish gold ring 62 Thumb-rings. 89, 90, 139 The 'Alhstan' ring 62 Divination-rings 101, 102 Anglo-Saxon ring found near Bosington Roman amulet-rings 104, 105, 107 63 Astrological ring 108 Rings found at Cuerdale, near Preston Zodiacal ring.

IIO 64 Amulet rings 126, 138, 141, 151, 152 Rings in the Royal Irish Charm-rings 133, 153 Academy 65 Talismanic rings 134, 135, 136 Spiral silver ring, found at Cabalistic rings 139, 147 Lago. 66 Mystical rings 140 Ring found at Flodden Field. 66 Rings of the Magi .

Figured ring supposed to repre- Rings with mottoes, worn as sent St. Louis medicaments ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE PAGE Rings, Runic Jointed betrothal ring Toadstone rings 157, 158 Gemmel ring, found at Horse- Cramp rings • 163, 165 lydown 316 Serjeant's ring 190 Ring with representation of Lu- Ring of the Beef Steak' Club 193 cretia 318 The Fisherman's Ring 199 Wedding-ring of Sir Thomas Ring of Thierry, Bishop of Gresham 319 Verdun 204 Gemmel ring 319 Ring of Pope Pius II. 206 'Claddugh' ring 320 Papal rings 208 Betrothal ring with sacred in- Episcopal rings 217, 226, 230, 231 scription 321 Episcopal thumb-ring १ 219 Devices on wedding rings. 322 Ring of Archbishop Sewall 225 The 'Devereux' ring 338 Ring of Archbishop Greenfield 225 The 'Essex' ring 342 Ring of Bishop Stanbery 226 Old mourning ring 360 Decade ring with figure of St.

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