Ring with 3 gold plated charms

Made:: 1851-1900 in France

maker:: Unknown

Ring with 3 gold plated charms, heart with turquoise
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Ring with 3 gold plated charms, heart with turquoise, anchor and small medal bearing head of Napoleon Eugene, Prince Imperial, English or French, 1851-1900

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A75839

Materials:: gold, plated, steel and turquoise

Measurements:: anchor: width 19 mm
anchor: length 15 mm
medal: diameter 13 mm
heart: length 12 mm
heart: width 9 mm
heart: thickness 6 mm

type:: amulet

credit:: Gogin

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Ring with 3 gold plated charms

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