Historic New England

Ring

Very thin gold band

Date: 1875-1899

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 101423

Accession Number: 1917.108

Ring

Small plain 18 karat gold band.

Date: 1870-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 101424

Accession Number: 1974.195a

Ring

Vulcanite ring inlaid with a rectangular silver plaque.

Date: 1870-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal), vulcanite, rubber (material)

GUSN: 101425

Accession Number: 1938.1112

Ring

Child's carnelian ring with faceted band.

Date: 1850-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 101426

Accession Number: 1936.164c

Ring

Carnelian ring with raised rectangular plaque.

Date: 1850-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 101427

Accession Number: 1940.505

Ring

This rose gold ring shows both stamped and chased repeating foliate decorations on the exterior band. It carries a maker's mark on the interior of the band.

Date: ca. 1870

Maker: Arnold & Steere

GUSN: 101428

Accession Number: 1930.1390

Ring

This plain ring is made from an unidentified yellow metal. It is unmarked and unadorned.

Date: 1875-1925

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy)

GUSN: 101429

Accession Number: 1930.1392

Ring

Gold hollow stamped ring with engraved shoulders set with oval yellow glass "stone".

Date: 1840-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 101430

Accession Number: 1941.145

Ring

Ivory ring with a carved pair of clasping hands in relief between two blue incised five-pointed stars.

Date: 1800-1899

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 101431

Accession Number: 1927.911

Ring

Gold ring with open-work shoulders and foliate engraving, center set with rectangular red glass stone surrounded by fourteen seed pearls.

Date: 1830-1860

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 101432

Accession Number: 1950.7

Ring

Gold ring with engraved floral design on band and open shoulders, center features abstract bow design set with jet and seed pearls.

Date: ca. 1834

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 101433

Accession Number: 1939.256

Ring

Child's opaque white glass ring with applied oval plaque.

Date: 1850-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 101434

Accession Number: 1936.164d

Ring

Gold ring with engraved shoulders, center features bow-tie design set with pink sapphires, seed pearls and black enameling.

Date: 1850-1870

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 101435

Accession Number: 1950.9

This ring is set with a rectangular, faceted paste stone over a gold twist cipher. Two smaller pastes flank each side. Fitting the eighteenth-century style, the pastes were set in silver, while the ring band is gold. The inside of the band is inscribed with a moral aphorism to the future wearer: "Le...

Date: ca. 1750

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal), glass by composition or origin, gold alloy

GUSN: 101436

Accession Number: 1927.914

Cameo Ring

Rose gold child's size ring set with a sardonyx cameo featuring the portrait bust of a woman and surrounded by a row of gold beading.

Date: ca. 1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 101437

Accession Number: 1930.1677

Ring

Gold ring with black enameling on shoulders and set with two pearls and four small pink sapphires.

Date: 1868

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 101438

Accession Number: 1938.446

Ring

Platinum ring with openwork band in floral motif, center set with a circular-cut sapphire surrounded by bead-set single-cut diamonds.

Date: 1947

Maker: Oakes, Edward Everett (Goldsmith)

Material: platinum (metal), sapphire (mineral), diamond (mineral)

GUSN: 101439

Accession Number: 2004.14.10

Ring

Yellow and white gold ring with openwork floral motif.

Date: 1947

Maker: Oakes, Edward Everett (Goldsmith)

Material: gold (metal), platinum (metal)

GUSN: 101440

Accession Number: 2004.14.11

Ring

Silver ring with a central oval pale blue stone surrounded by seven round stones, each brilliant-cut and bezel-set in a rosette design. Surrounding the central stone and interspersed between each round stone are silver beads. The band is a pair of silver wires that split at each shoulder to surround...

Date: 1950-1960

Maker: Parenti (Jeweler)

Material: silver (metal), quartz (mineral)

GUSN: 101441

Accession Number: 2004.14.4

Ring

Gold ring with scrolled engraving on shoulder, set with a teardrop shaped opal.

Date: 1855-1870

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 101442

Accession Number: 1933.1204

Ring

This gold ring is embellished with a rectangular plaque which is engraved with script initials. The shoulders are decorated with raised floral scrolls.

Date: 1800-1820

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 101443

Accession Number: 1934.1810

Ring

Gold navette-shaped mourning ring with foliate bright work engraving on band and reverse, center set with a miniature painting on ivory of two women standing on either side of an urn on a plinth, gold bead border surrounds miniature.

Date: 1782

Maker: unknown

Material: gold (metal), ivory (tooth component), human hair, watercolor (paint)

GUSN: 101444

Accession Number: 1977.21

Ring

Silver ring with applied gold leaf and flower design and set with a large oval amethyst.

Date: 1940-1950

Maker: Oakes, Edward Everett (Goldsmith)

Material: silver (metal), gold (metal), amethyst (mineral)

GUSN: 101445

Accession Number: 2004.14.9

Ring

Silver ring set with a natural cut carnelian stone.

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 101446

Accession Number: 1940.280

Ring

Gold ring set with floral design set with three cabochon cut opals and small diamonds.

Date: 1940-1950

Maker: Oakes, Edward Everett (Goldsmith)

Material: gold (metal), opal, diamond (mineral)

GUSN: 101447

Accession Number: 2004.14.8

Ring

Gold ring with shaped shoulders and set with a square cut green beryl backed with a colored foil.

Date: 1830-1840

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 101448

Accession Number: 1950.8

Ring

Plain gold band ring.

Date: ca. 1849

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 101449

Accession Number: 1932.2777

Ring

Gold reeded band ring set with an oval micromosaic image depicting a winged beetle. Micromosaic image is surrounded by a gold twist rope border.

Date: 1850-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: micromosaics, gold alloy

GUSN: 101450

Accession Number: 1930.174

Ring

Gold ring with chased floral decoration on shoulders, center set with rectangular plaque engraved "MAB"

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 101451

Accession Number: 1927.759

Ring

Rose gold ring set with a sardonyx cameo depicting a bust portrait of a woman. Came in a rectangular black cardboard box.

Date: ca. 1878

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 101452

Accession Number: 1944.217

Ring

Gold reeded band ring set with an oval micromosaic image of a beetle. Micromosaic is surrounded by a gold twist rope border.

Date: 1850-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: micromosaics, gold alloy

GUSN: 101453

Accession Number: 1930.173

Child's Signet Ring

Gold signet ring, center engraved with the letter T, chased four leaf clovers on either side of center cartouche.

Date: 1909-1915

Maker: unknown

Material: gold (metal)

GUSN: 101454

Accession Number: 1932.869

Ring

This small rose gold ring is embellished with a deeply chased floral design of roses or forget-me-nots around the exterior of the band, framed by narrow borders of reeding.

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 101455

Accession Number: 2007.15.153

Ring

14 karat rose gold ring with chased floral decoration.

Date: 1875

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 101456

Accession Number: 1941.144

Ring

Gold ring with open shoulders chased and engraved with a foliate design, center set with a black stone plaque with an applied silver flower set with rose cut diamonds.

Date: ca. 1860

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 101457

Accession Number: 1977.22.1

Ring

Gold ring with floral engraving on shoulders, center features three concentric white and black enameled circles each with a diamond set in silver. Based on the inscription and provenance, this may be the engagement ring for the donor's aunt, Elizabeth Olivia Lane. She married Grenville Stevens in 18...

Date: c. 1840

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 101458

Accession Number: 1922.465

Bracelet

This bracelet is composed of four rows of table-worked brunette human hair braided together. The bracelet attaches with a three-part clasp. Each end of the hair braid is enclosed in a chased gold end cap. One cap is attached with a tube hinge to an openwork swirled gold oval rosette set with a puff ...

Date: 1863

Maker: unknown

Material: human hair, gold (metal)

GUSN: 101359

Accession Number: 1920.545

Necklace Fragment

This necklace of table-worked hair is embellished at the center front with a gold tube mount. The necklace clasped at the center back with a matching gold mount and tube closure (now broken but attached to the necklace with a length of thread).

Date: 1800-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: human hair, gold (metal)

GUSN: 101360

Accession Number: 1928.899

Necklace

This braided hair chain closes with a metal tube clasp.

Date: 1870-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 101361

Accession Number: 1922.607

Watch Chain Fragment

Watch chain consisting of a rope of woven hair, two hair ball slides, missing metal findings.

Date: 1830-1860

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 101362

Accession Number: 1927.760

Watch Chain

Long rope of hair in ten sections separated by octagonal gold mounts.

Date: ca. 1810

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 101363

Accession Number: 1916.229

Necklace

Long thin rope of woven hair separated into five sections by round gold bands, rectangular clasp engraved "WD."

Date: 1810-1830

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 101364

Accession Number: 1937.905

Necklace

Long twisted rope chain of woven hair set with four octagonal gold bands.

Date: 1850-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 101365

Accession Number: 1931.53

Necklace

Necklace consisting of two woven ropes of hair with three sets of gold bands and a rectangular clasp.

Date: 1830-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 101366

Accession Number: 2007.15.215

Necklace

Long rope of woven hair with circular gold band at center and an octagonal tube clasp.

Date: 1850-1880

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 101367

Accession Number: 1933.1174

Necklace

Long twisted rope of woven hair with gold octagonal tube clasp.

Date: 1853

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 101368

Accession Number: 1930.1028

Mourning Ring

Gold and black enamel band with gold Gothic script, center set with a plait of white hair under glass surrounded by a gold and black enamel serpent with its tail in its mouth, serpent has diamond eye.

Date: 1815

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 101369

Accession Number: 1965.51

Mourning Ring

Ring with rose gold mounting and band. Bezel center set with hair under glass, engraved on reverse.

Date: 1804

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 101370

Accession Number: 2006.34

Brooch

Gold octagonal brooch with faceted edge, center set with hair under glass and surrounded by a mother-of-pearl or opalized glass border, hinged pin and hook closure on reverse.

Date: ca. 1814

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material), human hair, plating (metal coating), gold alloy

GUSN: 101371

Accession Number: 2006.31

Brooch

Gold oval locket with two twisted coils of brown table-worked hair applied to edge, center set with a painting and hairwork on ivory of a mourning plinth under a weeping willow tree, hinged pin and hook on reverse.

Date: 1850-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 101372

Accession Number: 1927.493

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