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Description: | A Post Medieval gold finger ring ?? memento mori (1670-1740). The plain thin gold band is engraved on the exterior with a skull and inscribed inside in lower case: ??Remember to dye??, with a maker??s mark GB in a quatrefoil shield with a pellet above and below. This type of ring had a long life from around 1670 to the 1730s, but as the mark is not listed in the standard London goldsmiths?? marks sources, it is not possible to confirm a pre-1708 date for this ring.
J. Rudoe
British Museum
24.9.08
Dimensions: diameter: 19.70mm; width: 3.50mm; thickness: 1.03mm; weight: 2.50g. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Sumnall, Kate - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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