This article aims to offer everything that is of importance and interest in regard to antique emerald rings, from the fabled ring of Prometheus down to the latest productions of the goldsmiths and jewelers of our day. The subject offers a striking illustration of the wonderful diversity of form, decoration and usage that the skill and fancy of man have been able to realize in the case of the little circlet constituting a ring. To make this clearer to the reader, a division in accordance with the general history and the special uses of rings has seemed more effective than any attempt to separate all the material along geographical and chronological lines. Here are some nice antique emerald rings:
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One of the earliest uses to which antique emerald rings were put was for the impression of an engraved design or device upon letters or documents, as the sign manual of the wearer. From the time of the ancient Egyptians, this use prevailed in various parts of the world and many of the most striking rings of this type are described and figured. Allied to these and in some cases identical with them, are the rings given as marks of official dignity and rank.
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A most important class are the antique emerald rings bestowed upon and worn by the higher ecclesiastics. Papal rings, among which the most noted is the Fisherman’s Ring, rings for cardinals and for bishops and also occasionally in former times, for abbots, were and still are regarded with special reverence in the Roman and Greek churches. The usage of wearing rings of this type dates far back in the history of Christianity. Many examples of these rings are given as also of others bearing Christian emblems and of those worn by nuns and widows who had vowed never to re-wed.
Closely connected with these religious rings are the betrothal and wedding rings of antique emerald rings. Here it has seemed best to group together the available data since the line of demarcation between engagement and wedding rings though clearly enough marked today, is not easy to draw in earlier times. A very full selection of mottoes has been added, some of which might still be used; the greater number however belong to a past age upon the sentiments of which they cast interesting side lights.
Rings for the finger By George Frederick Kunz
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