[M] EARLY 19TH CENTURY GOLD AND ENAMEL NELSON MEMORIAL RING, 1806

AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY GOLD AND ENAMEL NELSON MEMORIAL RING, 1806 commemorating the death of Admiral Lord Nelson at Trafalgar, the enamel rectangular bezel decorated with the gothic letters N and B, surmounted by a viscount’s and a ducal coronet, inside bezel engraved Lost to his Country 21 Octr. 1805, outside shank engraved with Nelson’s motto: PALMAM QUI MERUIT FERAT According to a hand written list in the British Library, by Sarah, Countess Nelson, the wife of Nelson’s brother and executor William, first Earl Nelson (1757-1835), fifty-eight such rings were distributed ahead of Nelson’s funeral in January 1806 to friends and family. The small size of this example suggests a female recipient.AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY GOLD AND ENAMEL NELSON MEMORIAL RING, 1806 commemorating the death of Admiral Lord Nelson at Trafalgar, the enamel rectangular bezel decorated with the gothic letters N and B, surmounted by a viscount’s and a ducal coronet, inside bezel engraved Lost to his Country 21 Octr. 1805, outside shank engraved with Nelson’s motto: PALMAM QUI MERUIT FERAT According to a hand written list in the British Library, by Sarah, Countess Nelson, the wife of Nelson’s brother and executor William, first Earl Nelson (1757-1835), fifty-eight such rings were distributed ahead of Nelson’s funeral in January 1806 to friends and family. The small size of this example suggests a female recipient.

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