Jewellery, Watches and Objects of Vertu

A late 17th/18th century gold posy ring, the plain gold band inscribed to the interior ‘My love with this presented is’ in italic script, ring size L. £1,000-£1,200

Provenance: This ring was discovered in Tadley, Hampshire and is recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database ref: BERK-94C863 and has been disclaimed as treasure ref: 2020-T883.



The inscription is a slight variant on ‘My love by this presented is’, a line from ‘The Academy of complements or A new way of Wooing’, published 1685.


For a similar example with the same posy, see British Museum, Ref: 1961, 1202, 290.