Maybe a shoemaker's last rather than shoe trees?
Ditto. Uh huh.
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This is nonsense. It is not a shield & there is no reason the 'dent' would become more worn than any of the rest of it. If I could account for...
Since this signature had gone completely unnoticed until I started to collect examples, & completely undeciphered until @Jivvy (we miss you!)...
I was going to suggest a reticule. See sellers are calling them reticule purses.
My gut feeling is that this was made deliberately crudely to give the impression of great age in the mistaken belief that rings couldn't be made...
Not quite sure what this means but it looks to me like the ring band was shaped to accommodate the dent that was already in the matrix, not like...
They are all shield shaped, which the one you are considering is not. This is an important difference.
@antidiem If it had been made by this method, would it have needed that seam at the bottom of the shank?
As I said, this is really out of my lane, although tangentially connected to the sort of things I know more about. Age seller gives puts it to...
A place to put food waste until you could take it out to the compost pile?
I was wondering how it could get dinged in a way that would dent the top edge & push the bottom edge out of line.
Too large. :(
Excellent thought. Will try & hope file not too large.
Don Quixote & Sancho Panza.
Had to look this up. Google corrects me that it is a dough proofer & tells me that they are heated, but this still looks to me like a place you...
I doubt it's a reproduction. The question in my mind is whether the entire ring is 16th century or was it cobbled together at a later time?...
This time period is way out of my realm, but I find the ring holding the matrix weirdly crude, particularly if all the heraldic devices indicate...
Schmoll was active in the second half of the 19th century. Wish I could attach a Word doc but not allowed. I have one with 48 photos of...
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