Jewellery, Watches and Objects of Vertu

A 17th century silver gilt posy ring, the plain D-section band inscribed to the interior ‘Feare god and love mee’, in italic script, bearing maker’s mark ‘CW’ in rectangular punch, ring size P. £400-£600

This ring was discovered by a metal detectorist in Slimbridge, near Stroud in Gloucestershire.

The ring has been recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database, Ref: PAS-10F734, and has subsequently been disclaimed as Treasure. Please note the PAS report records this ring as gold, but it is silver gilt not gold.

Tony Dove notes on the PAS report: “The maker's mark is very similar to one on a ring in the collection of the British Museum (reference 1961,1202.403) which was attributed to one of either 'Charles Walrond, London jeweller, Free. of the London Goldsmiths' Company in 1670 (no further dates known and death unrecorded); or Charles Wise, London jeweller, Free. of the London Goldsmiths' Company in 1682, (no further dates known and death unrecorded).”