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A SPANISH OR SPANISH COLONIAL EMERALD RING
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A SPANISH OR SPANISH COLONIAL EMERALD RING

Fermé12 December 2012

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A SPANISH OR SPANISH COLONIAL EMERALD RING
The shaped openwork bezel of double cruciform pattern set with square and rectangular-cut emeralds, in rub-over collet settings, with gold loop intersections, mounted in gold, circa 1650

Christie's London, Rings, Antique and Historical Jewellery, 3 October 1990, lot 400

This lot was part of the gold emerald treasure recovered from the Nuestra Señora De Las Maravillas shipwrecked off the coast of Havanna in January 1656 where it lay undiscovered until its cargoe was finally salvaged by Captain Herbert Humphreys in the late 1980s.