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Hi all
Had a few hours out tday few georgian coins and 1966  sixpunce and then this gold posy ring still gobsmacked to say the least, According to my scales it is 7 gramms, thanks for looking.

Oh forgot the clod shot ps inscription reads X I  lyke  my choys

Lubbly jubbly.....Another item to cross off the list ;)

Definitely thanks geoff

Great find fella ;)

Very nice find, well done. Should be declared as potential treasure.

definately
 ;D

Well done Alun, What an absolute cracker

Absolutely beauty, well rescued.

Thank you guys

Very, very nice. What a lovely find. 


Val

Cheers val well done on your bling

That's lovely that is - I'm just amazed at how many seem to have been lost....

When I see post rings like this I'm reminded of my own wedding ring which has an inscription on the inside.

My wife being economical with her own money bought me a second-hand Argos special in an antique / ring place over the road from the church we go married in (St Cuthbert's in Darlington). Originally it said 'I love you' in it, but as it was a bit large, I had to get it sized (although I don't wear it at the moment, as I've now got too fat to wear it). Unfortunately the people sizing the ring (they had to take a section out) weren't too careful and they cut some of the legend. So, now it says 'I owe you'........

Quick question:

Am I right in thinking some of the posy rings we find may have been deliberately discarded because of death/divorce?

well done deadlock thats superb mate.i have only ever found one,at orcop,i was liz 1st but was silver with gilding.your find is an absolute beauty,well done mate i bet you nearly fell over. ;) ;) ;)

lovely find alan ,well done mate  :) :) :)

Cheers jcb well chuffed

weldone bud weehee

Cheers dwb haha

That's very nice, i'd say 17th, 18th century :)

Cheers Ben

An absolutely cracking bit of gold. I have been lucky enough to find 2 posey rings. One gold and one silver gilt. The gold one was my first ever bit of gold. It is 18th century and the inscription reads ' None can prevent ye lord's intent' The silver gilt one is 17th century and reads ' Love and serve'.

Nice one deadlock, well found the clod shot looks great ;)

A superb find.....love it very well done.......PaulB. 8)

Thanks people

Brilliant find Mr deadlucky ! ;) looking forward to seeing it in the flesh as it were :)

There can't be much left on that bucket list of yours now is there ? ;)

Here you go john hope this helps

An exquisite find indeed. Well done Alan. 

[can u please send me 6 numbers between 1 and 49 incl]   ;D ;D

nice find very well done  :)

Wow nice find  ;)

Hi Deadlock,

Before I get to the "X" part of the ring I would say it was dated somewhere between 1680-1720. Now spelling errors are quite common on these rings, and could have been misspelt at any time, but it is my opinion that as both the words CHOICE and LIKE are misspelt, then the ring probably dates too around 1700 and backwards. You can appreciate why they chose to use the letter Y in choice since back in that period and going further back in the 1600s they often wrote the words how they sounded rather than how they were spelt. So if you say the word JOY for instance, you can see why then they wrote CHOY as they both sound the same, and the same goes for using the S at the end, since the letters CE and S both sound the same also. And I think that as the word like was misspelt using the letter Y, then this ring is again probably pre 1700, but again this is all a matter of opinion.

Now onto the mysterious letter "X" or rather ")-(". I may be wrong here but this is probably not a letter, but rather a symbol, and maybe is the sign of the Zodiac for Pisces! Take a look at the link below. As far as being a letter I don't think this is the case. If indeed it does represent PISCES, then that is quite interesting since it could mean several things, perhaps the person that wore it was that Zodiac, or maybe it was give and/or the people married during the time of the Zodiac, which for Pisces is between 20 Feb - 20 March?

Also I was thinking that the ")-(" symbol could mean this, nothing to do with the Zodiac but rather the following. If we break the symbol up into three, we have two halves of a circle and a line. So each half represents the man and woman and the line joins the two, symbolising marriage, which is plausible I think.

http://www.pysanky.info/Brody_Pysanka/Zodiac.html (http://www.pysanky.info/Brody_Pysanka/Zodiac.html)

Hope this helped in some way.

Cheers, Jon