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Description: | Cast copper alloy finger ring with circular hoop and plain oval bezel that is trapezoidal in profile, like a stirrup-shaped type. Typical stirrup-shaped finger rings, that are earlier in date, have a bezel with raised sides to produce a setting to hold a stone. This bezel would have been incised to order, as these rings were mass-produced in the 19th century. There are patches of shiny dark green patina on the inside of the hoop but most of the surface of the ring is corroded and abraded as if it was once in the sand, and possibly the sea.Hinks (1969) illustrates a similar ring with an oval bezel on page 99, Fig.6, which is dated from c.1860-1880.
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