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ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Egyptian gold signet-ring 2

Egyptian bronze rings 4

Egyptian signet-rings 6

Egyptian porcelain ring 9

Egyptian mummy, rings on the fingers of an 10

Egyptian gold ring from Ghizeh 11

Etruscan ring with chimeræ 15

Roman-Egyptian ring 15

Modern Egyptian rings 17

Modern Egyptian ring with double keepers 17

Etruscan ring representing the car of Admētus 19

Etruscan rings with serpents and beetle 19

Etruscan ring with scarabæus 20

Etruscan ring with representation of two spirits in combat 20

Etruscan ring with intaglio 21

Greek and Roman rings 22

Late Roman rings 23

Ring found at Silchester 24

Ring of a group pattern 24

Ancient plain rings 24

Iron ring of a Roman knight 25

Roman ring, crescent-shaped 26

Roman ring of coloured paste 28

Gallo-Roman ring representing a cow or bull 29

Roman thumb-ring 29

Roman ring, with a representation of Janus 32

Roman ring, with figures of Egyptian deities 32

Roman ring, with busts; from the Musée du Louvre 33

Roman ring, with head of Regulus 34

Roman rings from Montfaucon 36, 37, 38

Roman ring in the Florentine Cabinet 39

Roman ‘memorial’ gift-rings 41

Anglo-Roman 41

Anglo-Roman and Roman rings 42

Roman rings found at Lyons 43

Roman bronze ring of a curious shape 44

Roman key-rings 45

Roman rings, with inscription and monogram 47

Roman ‘legionary’ ring 47

Roman ‘legionary’ ring 48

Roman amber and glass rings 48

Byzantine ring, from Montfaucon 49

Byzantine ring, found at Constantinople 49

Rings from Herculaneum and Pompeii 49

Roman bronze ring 50

Roman ‘trophy’ ring 50

Roman ring, from the Museum at Mayence 50

Roman key-rings 51

Roman, late, from the Waterton Collection 52

Anglo-Saxon rings 53

Early British (?) ring found at Malton 54

Ring of King Ethelwulf 54

Anglo-Saxon rings 58

Early Saxon rings found near Salisbury 59

South Saxon ring found in the Thames 60

Ancient Irish rings found near Drogheda 61

Early Irish gold ring 62

The ‘Alhstan’ ring 62

Anglo-Saxon ring found near Bosington 63

Rings found at Cuerdale, near Preston 64

Rings in the Royal Irish Academy 65

Spiral silver ring, found at Lago 66

Ring found at Flodden Field 66

Figured ring supposed to represent St. Louis 67

Rings found in Pagan graves 68

Rings of the Frankish and Merovingian periods 69, 70

Gold ‘Middle Age’ ring, from the Louvre 71

Rings on the effigy of Lady Stafford 72

Enamelled floral ring 75

‘Merchant’s Mark’ rings 75, 87

Ring of the sixteenth century 76

Ring of Frederic the Great 76

Venetian ring 76

Italian diamond-pointed ring 76

Italian symbolical ring 77

Venetian ring 78

East Indian ring, with drops of silver 78

Indian rings 79

Spanish ring 79

‘Giardinetti’ or guard rings 79

French rings of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries 80

‘Escutcheon’ ring, French 81

French rings 81, 82, 83

Moorish rings 82

Bavarian peasant’s ring 84

Thumb-rings 89, 90, 139

Divination-rings 101, 102

Roman amulet-rings 104, 105, 107

Astrological ring 108

Zodiacal ring 110

Amulet rings 126, 138, 141, 151, 152

Charm-rings 133, 153

Talismanic rings 134, 135, 136

Cabalistic rings 139, 147

Mystical rings 140

Rings of the Magi 143

Rings with mottoes, worn as medicaments 148

Rings, Runic 150

Toadstone rings 157, 158

Cramp rings 163, 165

Serjeant’s ring 190

Ring of the ‘Beef Steak’ Club 193

The Fisherman’s Ring 199

Ring of Thierry, Bishop of Verdun 204

Ring of Pope Pius II. 206

Papal rings 208

Episcopal rings 217, 226, 230, 231

Episcopal thumb-ring 219

Ring of Archbishop Sewall 225

Ring of Archbishop Greenfield 225

Ring of Bishop Stanbery 226

Decade ring with figure of St. Catherine (?) 249

Decade thumb-ring 249

Silver decade ring 250

Decade ring found near Croydon 250

Decade signet-ring 251

Decade rings 251, 252

Decade ring of Delhi work 253

Trinity ring 254

Religious rings 254, 255, 256, 260, 261, 262, 263

‘Paradise’ rings 257

Reliquary ring 257

Early Christian rings 258, 259, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273

Ecclesiastical ring 264

Pilgrim ring 264

Roman key-rings 294

Hebrew marriage and betrothal rings 299, 300, 302

Byzantine ring 304

Betrothal ring 307

Half of broken betrothal ring 309

Jointed betrothal ring 314

Gemmel ring, found at Horselydown 316

Ring with representation of Lucretia 318

Wedding-ring of Sir Thomas Gresham 319

Gemmel ring 319

‘Claddugh’ ring 320

Betrothal ring with sacred inscription 321

Devices on wedding rings 322

The ‘Devereux’ ring 338

The ‘Essex’ ring 342

Old mourning ring 360

Memorial rings, Charles I. 366, 367, 370

Royalist memorial ring 370

Memorial and mortuary rings 373

Squared-work diamond ring found in Ireland 380

Mortuary rings at Mayence 381, 382

Gold rings from Etruscan sepulchres 383

Ring found at Amiens 383

Ring found in the tomb of William Rufus, Winchester Cathedral 385

Ring discovered in Winchester Cathedral 385

Ring of Childeric 386

Motto and device rings 390, 406

Posy-ring 391, 417

Inscription rings 410, 411, 412, 417

New Year’s gift ring 421, 422

Poison-rings 433

Dial-rings 452, 453

Signet-ring of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Darnley ring 460

Supposed ring of Roger, King of Sicily 465

The Worsley seal-ring 467

Ring of Saint Louis 469

Ring-devices of the Medici family 472, 473

Ring found at Kenilworth Castle 474

Heraldic ring 481

Martin Luther’s betrothal and marriage rings 481, 482, 483

Shakspeare’s ring (?) 484

Initials of Sir Thomas Lucy, at Charlecote Hall 486

Ivory-turned rings 488

Squirt ring 494

FINGER-RING LORE.