6th-8th century AD. A gold finger ring with parallel outer bands of punched pellets and median band of billets with ring and stroke elements to the shoulders; inverted pyramidal bezel with raised edges, pellets to the upper edge and reserved eagle with spread wings within the panel; upper face with cell and inset polished emerald. Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 497, for type.5.39 grams, 32.22mm overall, 17.07mm internal diameter (approximate size British M, USA 6, Europe 12.46, Japan 12) (1 1/4"). Property of an English collector; acquired from John Moor, York, UK, in the late 1990s; accompanied by an independent specialist report and valuation by graduate gemmologist and jewellery expert Anna Rogers, GIA GG, BA, Gem-A, ref. no.168703/07/12/2020; this lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no. 10455-168703. [A video of this lot is available to view on TimeLine Auctions website.]