AN AMERICAN GOLD AND ENAMEL MOURNING RING

The present lot comprises a small group of gold marked for Myer Myers, including a pair of shoe buckles, a snuffbox, and five rings including the one offered here. The further four rings include a mourning ring in memory of Anna Maria Panet, now in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York, another for Robert Hunter Morris, now in a private collection, a third for John Stroud, sold from the Darling Foundation Collection at Christie's, New York, 18 January 2007, lot 15, and then again from the Collection of Irvin & Anita Schorsch at Sotheby's, New York, 20 January 2016, lot 1046, and a plain ring sold at Christie's, New York 20 January 2023, lot 592.
Philip Philipse (1724-1768) was the second son of Frederick Philipse II, the second Lord of Philipsburg Manor in Westchester County, New York. Loyalists during the Revolution, the Philipse family, including Philip, his older brother Frederick, and his sisters Susanna and Mary, had their lands seized in 1779 by the Revolutionary Government of New York, including what was known as The Philipse Patent, a 250 square mile tract of land purchased by Adolphus Philipse which received a land patent from the British Crown in 1702.