Rings for the finger : $b from the earliest known times to the present, with full descriptions of the origin, early making, materials, the archæology, history, for affection, for love, for engagement, for wedding, commemorative, mourning, etc.Kunz, George Frederick
History
Rings for the finger : $b from the earliest known times to the present, with full descriptions of the origin, early making, materials, the archæology, history, for affection, for love, for engagement, for wedding, commemorative, mourning, etc.
Kunz, George Frederick
Rings; Rings -- Folklore
_Trauring_, German designation of betrothal ring, 209
Tree, Sir Herbert, x
Trees sealed with rings, 128
Tricolored magic ring, 304
“Trinity Ring,” 75
Tritheim, Abbot of Spandau, magic ring made by, 314
True-lovers’ knot, 2
Tumulty, J. P., ix
Türk, Viennese court jeweller, collection of rings made by, 66
“Turkie,” old name of turquoise, 220
Turquoise, 21, 23, 24, 34, 63, 75, 81, 86, 103, 114, 150, 182, 328,
334
Tyrolean rings, 353
Tyszkiewicz Collection, 121
U
Ulysses, ring of, 8
United States National Museum, 85
University Galleries, Oxford, 60
University of Pennsylvania, excavations at Nippur by, 4
V
Valens, Emperor, 299
Vandyke, Anthony, 62
Vergil, Polydore, 342
Verney, Sir Edmund, ring given to, by Charles I, 190
Verres, seal ring stolen by, 126
Victoria, Queen, 156, 225
Victoria and Albert Museum (South Kensington Museum), 217, 269, 271
Virgin, betrothal ring of, at Perugia, 100, 222, 258–261
Visigoths, law of, concerning betrothal rings, 200
Vyse, Colonel, 118
W
Wada, T., x
Waddesdon Bequest, 88
Wade, Mr. and Mrs. J. Homer, 90
Wales, Prince of, ring among insignia of, made by Welsh gold, 283,
284
Walwyn, Francis, engraver of Henrietta Maria’s diamond signet, 154
Warbeck, Perkin, 180
Ward, William Hayes, ix, 3
anecdote of ring bought by, 3, 4
Washington rings, 77, 191, 192
Watch rings, 40, 87, 353
Watelet, M., 147
Waterton, Edmund, 34, 214
Waterton Collection, 217, 269–271
Wearing of rings, methods of, 50–66
Wedding or betrothal rings
sent by Clovis I, 201
conditional gift of, 205
diamond, in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, 221
on which finger placed, 194–197, 203, 215, 222
George IV’s with portrait of Mrs. Fitzherbert, 224, 225
in ancient Germany, 208
in modern Germany, 209
gimmal rings as, 218, 219
gold, already used by Romans in 2d. century, 199
gold, surrendered for iron in Germany, 228
in Greek Church, 202–204
of Sir Thomas Gresham, 219
Hebrew use of, 213, 214
of iron, in early Roman times, 199
of Dr. Samuel Johnson, 223
loss of a, Scotch legend regarding, 216
of Queen Louisa of Prussia, 224
commemorating Luther’s marriage, 216, 217
Manx custom as to, 205
of Mary Queen of Scots, 217
for men, 230
mottoes on, 209, 211, 221, 233–248
with names formed by initial letters of precious stones, 227
obligation involved in giving a, 204
ominous substitute for one, in a Scotch legend, 226
of Cola di Rienzi, 214
rush-ring as, 206
Shylock’s turquoise perhaps in betrothal ring, 220
story of a, in “Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles,” 215
turquoise used for in Germany, 221
Week-day gems for ring-setting, 331
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