Elizabethan Gold Ring with Pyramid Diamond
16th century AD. A slender gold finger ring with scrolled detailing to the shoulders, pyramidal bezel with crescent detailing and inset diamond to the centre. Cf. Chadour, A.B. Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 677. 4.31 grams, 25.70mm overall, 16.82mm internal diameter (approximate size British K, USA 5 1/4, Europe 9.95, Japan 10) (1"). Property of a UK gentleman; acquired from a London gallery in the late 1980s; formerly from a private European collection, formed in the 1960s and 1970s; supplied with geologic report No. TL005195, by geologic consultant Dr R. L. Bonewitz.
Very fine condition.
Estimate: 4000 - 6000