16th Century Bezoar Ring solitaire rings The garnet displays excellent colour

The garnet displays excellent colour

3cm diameter

Jewellers & Silversmiths of Birmingham

My best guess is that it was probably passed down the generations to whomever ultimately stuck in on the end of their watch chain

16th Century Bezoar Ring solitaire rings The garnet displays excellent colourThe Cambridge Dictionary describes a bezoar stone thus: "a solid mass found in the digestive system, especially of a cow, goat, or sheep, that was believed in the past to have magical powers: Apparently a bezoar would counteract almost any poison." The term "Bezoar comes from the word badzehr, which is Arabic for antidote, and these weird gastrointestinal anomalies first came to Europe in the 12th century, introduced by Arabian doctors in the wake of