WW1 Trench Art Heart Ring gilt metal and date from the 1820s

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

The lid features a wild boar

The mount features lightly scalloped claw settings

It's constructed from two rows of hemisphere domes

6mm diameter

WW1 Trench Art Heart Ring gilt metal and date from the 1820sDATE: 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