Silver finger ring

Made:: 1701-1800

Silver finger ring, set with an operculum, possibly 18th century

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A641670

Materials:: silver and shell

type:: finger rings

credit:: Nyberg

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Silver finger ring

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