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Toad swallowing a serpent, ring designed in form of a. 311
Toadstone, warns of poison when worn in a ring, 341
Toe rings, 78, 80
Topaz, 78. 86. 125, 158, 178, 276, 335
Tourmaline, 86
green ("Brazilian emerald"), used for bishops'rings in Brazil, 277
Tournament, rings as prizes at a, 181
"Tower Rings," 169
Trallianus, Alexander/recommends ring as cure for biliousness, 338
Trauring, German designation of betrothal ring, 209
Tree, Sir Herbert, χ
Trees sealed with rings, 128
Tricolored magic ring, 304
"Trinity Ring," 75
Tritheim, Abbot of Spandau, magic ring made by, 314
True-lovers' knot, 2
Tumulty, J. P., ix
Turk, Viennese court jeweller, collection of rings made by, 66
"Turkie," old name of turquoise, 220
Turquoise, 21, 23, 24, 34, 63, 75, 81, 86, 103, 114, 150, 182, 328, 334
Tyrolean rings, 353
Tyszkiewicz Collection, 121
U Ulysses, ring of, 8
United States National Museum, 85, University Galleries, Oxford, 60 University of Pennsylvania, excavations at Nippur by, 4
V
Valens, Emperor, 299
Vandyke, Anthony, 62
Vergil, Polydore, 342
Verney, Sir Edmund, ring given to, by
Charles 1, 190 Verres, seal ring stolen by, 126 Victoria, Queen, 156, 225 Victoria and Albert Museum (South
Kensington Museum), 217, 269, 271 Virgin, betrothal ring of, at Perugia 100,
222, 258-261 Visigoths, law of, concerning betrothal
rings, 200 Vyse, Colonel, 118
W Wada, T., x Waddesdon Bequest, 88
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Wade, Mr. and Mrs. J. Homer, 90 Wales, Prince of, ring among insignia
of, made by Welsh gold, 283, 284 Walwyn, Francis, engraver of Henrietta
Maria's diamond signet, 154 Warbeck, Perkin, 180 Ward, William Hayes, ix, 3
ancedote
of ring bought by, 3, 4 Washington rings, 77, 191, 192 Watch rings, 40,
87, 353 Watelet, M., 147 Waterton, Edmund, 34, 214 Waterton Collection,
217, 269-271 Wearing of rings, methods of, 50-66 Wedding or betrothal
rings: sent by Clovis I, 201 conditional gift of, 205 diamond, in
Shakespeare's Cym-
beline, 221 on which finger placed, 194-197,
203, 215. 222 George IV's with portrait of Mrs.
Fitzherbert, 224, 225 in ancient Germany, 208 in modern Germany, 209 gimmal rings as, 218, 219 gold, already used by Romans in
2d.
century, 199 gold, surrendered for iron in Germany, 228 in Greek
Church, 202-204 of Sir Thomas Gresham, 219 Hebrew use of, 213,214 of
iron, in early Roman times, 199 of Dr. Samuel Johnson, 223 loss of a,
Scotch legend regarding,
216 of Queen Louisa of Prussia, 224 commemorating Luther's marriage,
216, 217 Manx custom as to, 205 of Mary Queen of Scots, 217 for men, 230
mottoes on, 209, 211, 221, 233-248 with names formed by initial letters
of precious stones, 227 obligation involved in giving a, 204 ominous substitute for one, in a
Scotch legend, 226 of Cola di Rienzi, 214 rush ring as, 206
Shylock's turquoise perhaps in betrothal ring, 220 story of a, in "Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles," 215
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