Early Victorian Snake Ring arts & crafts An excellent period wedding ring

An excellent period wedding ring

but up close it looks like the glittering diamonds are the centres of stars

unusual to find one with coral

resting in simple bezel mounts

Essentially a federation of city-states

Early Victorian Snake Ring arts & crafts An excellent period wedding ringRemarkable antique snake ring dating from the early Victorian period, circa 1840. The serpent has a cute, cartoonish face with googly ruby eyes and a sly hint of a smile. It's important amusing to remember that the jewellers making the serpent jewellery of this period had, more than likely, never seen a snake maybe not even a picture of one. And, while this one's certainly not bad anatomically speaking some of them are quite hilarious. The head