15th-16th century AD. A silver-gilt ring with flat-section hoop with stepped shoulders, lentoid-section bezel with scalloped facets, each decorated with a slender notched strip at the centre, repeated on the shoulders, cut and polished garnet cabochon. 3.00 grams, 24.73mm overall, 17.40mm internal diameter (approximate size British L 1/2, A 6, Europe 11.87, Japan 11) (1"). UK art market in the 1990s. Private collection of a Devon gentleman.