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Gold ring with slit shoulders set with an old mine cut diamond in a six prong crown setting.
rings (jewelry)
gold (metal)
diamond (mineral)
marriage
Ring
"S.H.P. Dec 30 1870" (Engraved)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
1054
J101
Unknown
American [use]
3/8 (W), 13/16 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.25
"Jewelry at Historic New England," Online exhibit presented by Historic New England launched September 30, 2007 at www.historicnewengland.org/jewelryhistory/.
Pictured in Brierley, Sarah, "With this Ring I Thee Wed," Historic New England, Fall (2007): 16.
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