Victorian Nine Symbolic Panels Ring lighter Made in Japan in the

Made in Japan in the 1860s

It's modelled in high karat yellow gold

Modelled in Sterling silver

home to a Roman era intaglio panel carved with the head Emperor Caesar Augustus

The opal is an exaggerated navette (boat-shaped) cabochon

Victorian Nine Symbolic Panels Ring lighter Made in Japan in theDATE: Victorian, c. 1900 An interesting antique panel ring featuring nine framed symbols. Various animals (birds, quadrupeds), people engaged in mysterious tasks, and more abstract iconography reminiscent of scales or temples adorn each of the square faces at first I thought they were zodiac but that doesn't add up possibly Egyptian Hieroglyphs? What I can tell you is that it bears English hallmarks for 18k gold, and dates from the turn of the 20th