ANTIQUE GEORGE IV 18CT GOLD ORNATE ENAMEL MOURNING RING WILLIAM LISTER M.D. 1830

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ANTIQUE GEORGE IV 18CT GOLD ORNATE ENAMEL MOURNING RING WILLIAM LISTER M.D. 1830:
$728.06

Argentum Antiques & Collectables Ltd

Fine Silver, Antiques & Collectables from the 18th, 19th & 20th Century, East Renfrewshire, UK.

Description: - This is an excellent antique George IV mourning ring, crafted with an ornate decorative mount and shoulders leading to a grooved back shank. The face of the ring is black enamel, and set with a a small rectangular shaped crystal containing a locket of hair.

To the reverse, the ring is engraved: \"William Lister M.D died 3 Feb 1830 aged 73\". The ring is also stamped with the kings head (George IV), 18 (To denote 18ct gold), London Assay office, and date letter O (1829).

Taken from Munk\'s Roll : Volume II : William Lister

William Listerb.1757 d.3 February 1830MD Edin(1781) LRCP(1782)

William Lister, M.D., was born in Hertfordshire, and educated at Edinburgh, where he took the degree of doctor of medicine 12th September, 1781 (D.M.I. de Fermentatione). He then settled in London, and was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 25th March, 1782. Dr. Lister was appointed physician to the Small-pox hospital 16th April, 1789, but resigned that office in February, 1791. On the death of Dr. Crawford, in 1795, he was elected physician to St. Thomas’s hospital, which appointment he retained until 1817. He died at his house in Lincoln’s-inn-fields, from disease of the heart, the 3rd February, 1830, aged seventy-three. Dr. Lister was much esteemed by his contemporaries. \"He possessed an acute and vigorous understanding, which had received the culture of a liberal and extended education. He was a good classical scholar, and until within a short time of his death was in the daily habit of devoting some intervals of leisure to the poets or historians of Greece and Rome. He was a painstaking, judicious, and successful practitioner, had a just conception of what belonged to the character of a physician, and always maintained by example as well as by precept the dignity and value of his profession.\" His bust is in the entrance hall of the new St. Thomas’s hospital.

William Munk(Volume II, page 329)

Assay: -.750 Gold (18ct)

Date: -1829

Period: -Early 19th Century

Engraving: - \"William Lister M.D died 3 Feb 1830 aged 73\".

Measurement: - Ring UK SizeL1/2/US size 57/8.

Weight: -3.35 grams / 0.108 troy ounces

Condition: -The ring is in excellent antique condition. Very minor surface scratches but no wear of note to enamel when viewed under magnification. Please see photos for confirmation of condition.

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