Victorian Sardonyx Crowned Lion Intaglio Signet Ring boxed fertility and long life

fertility and long life

Natural Blue Sapphire

modelled in 18 karat white gold throughout with UK on one side and NY on the other

but of the brevity and transience of life itself

Victorian Sardonyx Crowned Lion Intaglio Signet Ring boxed fertility and long lifeDATE: Victorian, c. 1880 Speak only truth of the living A cool Victorian signet ring set with an intaglio carved rectangular sardonyx panel. The crest depicts a crowned lion's head, in profile, above the Latin motto: "De Vivis Nil Nisi Verum" The full motto is actually De Vivis Nil Nisi Verum De Mortius Nil Nisi Bonum, which translates as Speak only truth of the living and good of the dead presumably shortened here so it fits on the heraldic crest. A