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An Australian gold signet ring, attributed to Robert Robertson,…
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An Australian gold signet ring, attributed to Robert Robertson, Collins Street, Melbourne, circa 1860 with a shield shaped cartouche engraved with script initials 'JH', the shoulders cast and chased with a kangaroo and an emu, twice marked 'Lion Rampant / RR / Thistle', 18 carat gold. Reference: In 1820 Robert Robertson was born in Cupar, Fife and migrated to Australia in 1852, starting a jewellery business in Collins Street in 1854, and later moving to Little Collins Street. A silver trowel with the same hallmark as this ring, thought to be by Robertson, was in the 1988 Kozminsky Bicentennial Exhibition, Australian Silver Gold & Jewellery. Given Robertson's Scottish background, and coping Glasgow's hallmarks of the Thistle and Lion Rampant, adds weight to the attribution of this mark to Robert Robertson
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Jewellery: Rings