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Description: | Cast copper alloy signet finger-ring engraved with an image of a three-masted ship on the bezel, perhaps used as a merchant?s mark. The bezel is oval and the ship is surrounded by an engraved oval line, set just 1 mm inside the edge of the bezel. The hoop is damaged and broken off on both sides, so that about a third of it is missing. It is worth noting that a similar signet ring that Read (1988) illustrates on page 189, No.1344, which is dated to the 18th century, has a hoop that has also been crushed at the same point, but the hoop has not broken off.
Read (1988) also illustrates a similar seal matrix on page 151, No.1024, which depicts a three-masted ship in the same style as this one, and which is dated to the 17th century. | 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 | Creator: | Anna Tyacke | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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