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Book Your AppointmentGeorgian 15ct Gold Carnelian Intaglio Portrait Ring of Edmond Halley & his Comet
№ A147
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An interesting 15ct62.5% pure gold (or 625 parts pure gold and 375 parts other metals). Popular during the Victorian, Edwardian and Art Deco eras but was discontinued in the mid-1930s. More gold carnelianA translucent red variety of chalcedony which in its turn is a form of cryptocrystalline quartz. Carnelian has been known and used since antiquity when it was sourced from the surfaces of the Egyptian and Arabian deserts. The most prized carnelian has a true blood-red color. More intaglioAn engraved stone, the opposite of a cameo, with a recessed design cut below the surface of the stone. Intaglio designs are common for signet rings and fob seals. More ring that commemorates Edmond Halley who was perhaps the second-greatest genius in the history of British astronomy. By chance, he lived at the same time as Isaac Newton.
Halley was born in 1656. Edmond turned to astronomy when he was in his teens and he went to Oxford University in 1673, where he proved himself a brilliant student. He soon came to the attention of the newly appointed Astronomer Royal, John Flamsteed, with whom Halley observed at Greenwich.
Halley possessed self-confidence and ambition equal to his intellect. Without waiting to finish his studies at Oxford, he persuaded his father to support him on a two-year trip to the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, from where he planned to catalogue the southern stars as Flamsteed was doing for those in the north. Coming from any other 19-year-old, it would have sounded embarrassingly presumptuous. Halley returned in 1678 with the job accomplished. He was rewarded with the accolades of the Royal Society and its patron, King Charles II, who ordered Oxford University to award Halley his master’s degree.
In 1682 a comet appeared. This was the comet that would one day bear his name.
This ring was made circa 1780-1820. The Roman set intaglio is beautifully carved with a portrait of Halley with the comet on the left.
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A rare ring.
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Item Number:
№ A147
Current Ring Size:
Dimensions:
20 mm (H) x 18 mm (W)
Place of Origin:
England
Discovered:
2 months ago
Hallmarks
Unmarked, 15ct gold
Many pieces of antique jewellery were unmarked because hallmark regulations were not obligatory until 1972.
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