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Object number2017.00006.04

TitleSerpent Ring

DescriptionA metal ring with a bezel set, glassy pale, oblong stone, recovered from the Royal Charter shipwreck. The stone has to veritical cracks through it and it set into two slender rectangles of tarnished, coppery-colored metal surrounded by a carved, possibly gold, serpent eating its tail. The ring band has an open braided design, with three consecutively smaller loops on either side. There are rust-orange deposits around the stone and in the loops on the band. The ring is tarnished over all.

Production date 1800 - 1859

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Materialmetal, stone

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