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Description: | A 17th Century copper-alloy signet seal ring combined with a pipe tamper. The two artefacts were often combined in the 17th Century, as gentlemen would often loose their pipe tamper having had too much to drink. With such an artefact the user could wear his ring and conceal the tamper until needed. The tamper is attached to the hoop of the ring opposite the bezel. The hoop of the ring is quite thin (3.81mm in width and 1.74mm thick). The hoop has been badly bent out of shape. The bezel however is quite large (17.92mm in length and 15.07mm wide). Engraved into the bezel are the letters RT, a floral design both above and below the letters and three notches one either side of the letters and one in-between the R and the T. The circumference of the bezel is further decorated with a ring of incised dots. The hoop of the ring does widen as it turns into the seal ring. The tamper is 22.84mm in length and tapers towards the ring the terminal end of the tamper has a diameter of 8.39mm. The tamper is decorated at either end; with three concentric rings on the terminal end and two concentric rings closest to the ring. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1600
1700 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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