Ring casting

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Except for the ubiquity of (6) and the pickled mess of (2), the rest are clean and nice ; sweet, even. A bit of (3) seems a carnivorous monkey cup plant but that's just a feeling. It could well be a lily or something. All vacuum cast designs in 22K hallmarked gold. Worth trying? Why not, if you want a jewel that you don't want to think or care too much about.

This signet ring is cast in lead-free pewter. The ring size when cast is 3.5, 5.25, 7.25, 9, 11.25. The sealing image is an oyster mushroom bunch. This is part of a series of signet rings I am making cast from lead-free pewter. Each master ring is hand sculpted to give a unique, rustic style, multi-dimensional relief image when used as a stamp to seal, with sealing wax.

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