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IBA THE OSHAWA TIMES, Friday, June 18, 1965 SENTIMENTAL OR (Continued from Page 4A times, found on the left - hand finger of a skeleton in an an- cient burial place at Harnham Hill, near Salisbury in England, has a curiously modern look. It may date back to the seventh century and was used as part of the Order of Matrimony in the Sarum Rite. Yet another unique gold ring was unearthed in France. Thought to be from the fifth century, it bears on _ its square top the rudely engraved figures of a warrior resting on his lance and a woman holding out her arms to him. On the edge appear two names, Betta and Dromacius, The Irish peasantry question- ed the validity of a marriage performed without a gold ring, and one shopkeeper in the south- east of. Ireland commercialized om this idea. He kept gold wed- ding rings for hire, and when people were too poor te pur- chase a ring of the precious mietail, they rented one from him. {n other places, the justice of the peace commonly kept a golden wedding ring which he used over and over again to marry couples. Today, goid -- both vellow and | white -- is as popular as ever. | Platinum is. the most expensive | and palladium, newest of the} precious jewelry metals and looking something like platinum, costs only a little more than 14- | karat gold. Between 1850 andj 1909 a plain, very wide gold band. was the favorite style, but gradually this has been replaced by the narrower band we are) accustomed te see today. Here | superstition may have raised its | head again in encouraging the! ase of a plain and simple band, as some people believed that marriage with a diamond ring. | fer example, foreshadowed evil | because the circle -- emblem of | perpetual love and happiness -- | was interrupted by the dia- mond Queen Victoria's Albert must have considered this super- | stition beneath his notice, how- | ever, for he gave his Queen an | elaborate diamond wedding ring | in the form of a gold snake with | feurteen hinged joints. The head | joint unscrewed and passed! through a loop in the tail. Tweive_of the joints had a dia- mond set in them; the inside of the ring was enameled in black and white. Incidentally, at this marriage six dozen rings were given out to guests, each en- graved with Victoria's profile. At certain times in history, wedding rings were heavily dec- orated. In the early centuries, Hebrew rings were richly em- bossed and decorated with gold filigree and enamel. Huge and clumsy, many were worn only during the marriage ceremony. Three styles were used. One has a miniature gable adorning the top, and around the sides are five triangular projections, call- ed bosses, enriched with filigree and flowers in blue, green or white eiameh The main part of the, ring is hinged onto the other part and covers a small gold door opening upon a tiny plaque engraved with the word "Mazel- tov' or good luck. The original is now in the British Museum. Another style has a _ building representing Solomon's temple mounted on the top, and on the temple or around the band was sometimes found the same in- 'value which had already been scription, '""Mazeltov'. The He- brews wore this ring on the right hand, They gave a ring in marriage, but it was in place of a piece of money of the same presented. The third style was very wide, had figures of Bib- lical times outlined on it and was thickly fringed around the edges. 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