Mid-Victorian Medusa Cameo Signet Ring military Heart Padlock: 2

Heart Padlock: 2

less chunky than these often are

Crafted in 800 silver indicating it was made in continental Europe circa 1890

and purples

It dates from the turn of the 20th Century

Mid-Victorian Medusa Cameo Signet Ring military Heart Padlock: 2DATE: Cameo is Victorian, c. 1850. Ring mount contemporary Stunning hardstone cameo ring depicting Medusa in high relief. Medusa is certainly the best known of the three monstrous Gorgon sisters. Our earliest reference to the Gorgons is found in Hesiod's Theogony, but it was Ovid who really fleshed out the story in the Metamorphoses, where he describes Medusa in her youth: Medusa once had charms; to gain her loveA rival crowd of envious lovers strove.