WW1 Trench Art Heart Ring gilt metal as the Strong

as the Strong

Rise off finger: 11

it's smaller than some of the cluster rings we currently have in stock

and date from the 1820s - a time when paste stones could command as much money

The mount features lightly scalloped claw settings

WW1 Trench Art Heart Ring gilt metal as the StrongDATE: WW1, c. 1915 An incredible example of WW1 "trench art",made by a soldiers on the front lines using whatever materials they had to hand. This ring is predominantly aluminium, likely from the nose cone of an artillery shell, set at the head with a copper (?) heart. Given the circumstances under which it was made, the quality is quite remarkable it's crude, but well made, and on account of the aluminium it's deceptively light. Presumably made to