18th century wedding ring

18th Century wedding rings

JEWELLERY, chiefly rings and lockets, have sometimes been worn in memory of a deceased person.

A mid-18th century mourning ring, the shank stylized with ribbon-like cartouches, interconnected to bear the following inlaid inscription: Leond Blagdon OB: 7 May 1763 Æ: 77. Leonard Blagdon, according to The History of Tiverton, was twice the mayor of Tiverton (Devon, UK). #georgianring #mourningring #georgianmourningring

Posy ring, inscribed: "tho absent yet constant'. Made in England in the 17-18th century (source).

A wonderfully sentimental early-mid 18th century posy ring, the outer hoop enameled in white and inlay-decorated with scrollwork hawthorn blossoms, the interior inscribed: “Mon bel amour je te donne mon cœur ♡” (French, “my beautiful love I give you my heart ♡”). Posy rings with decorated outer hoops are more unusual than plain counterparts; of these, examples enameled in white are especially rare. Among the British Museum’s large collection of 693 posy rings, only around five are enameled…

If there is one thing I can always be relied upon to love, it is the glow of a foiled garnet… And if you’ve never met a Perpignan up close and personally before, you are in for an indulgence. Perpignan garnets have a special history- the were only mined between the 17th-20th centuries in the Perpignan region, which straddles France’s southern most border with Spain. Tucked into an elusive corner of the alps, Perpignan shares a special symbol of Catalan culture in these rare stones. In fact…