Late 16th-early 17th century AD. A gold finger ring with D-section hoop and median band of punched hatching, each shoulder a spray of curled foliage with billets to the vertical spine, square pie-dish bezel with lateral foliage supports, the bezel with triangular leaf detailing, central red table-cut ruby imitation. Cf. Scarisbrick, D., Rings: Jewelry of Power, Love and Loyalty, London, 2007, items 436 and 437, for type.5.77 grams, 24.29mm overall, 17.90mm internal diameter (approximate size British L, USA 5 3/4, Europe 11.24, Japan 10) (1"). 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.168692/07/12/2020.