AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN SOLDIER’S RING 1905, SIZE 10 clearance Figural shoulders and banded edge

Figural shoulders and banded edge bezel with a six point star (hexagram) on hatched field

The shoulders are decorated with high relied transverse crests flanking balusters

they served as signets

The central hatched band flanked by pairs or thin raised bands

probably meant as a signet

AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN SOLDIER’S RING 1905, SIZE 10 clearance Figural shoulders and banded edgeThis type was popularized in the last decades of the 19th century with the military build up and occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Balkans by the Austro Hungarian alliance against Russia. Size 10 with 3. 4mm rounded face band flaring to the foliate decorated shoulders. Elaborate rococo scrolling edged bezel with a bar over 1905. Gilt bronze with the 24karat gold surface restored. Gift boxed with certificate of authenticity.