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The mystic marriage of Catherine of Alexandria and the infant Christ. Etching by C. Bouzonnet Stella after F. Lauri.

Kimball's anti-rheumatic ring : a speedy and permanent cure for rheumatism, neuralgia, gout, sciatica, lumbago, &c.

The Virgin Mary and Christ child with Saint Antony of Padua, Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Saint John the Baptist as a child. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after G. Bugiardini.

The mystic marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria to the Christ child; Saint Joseph looks at angels who bear attributes of Saint Barbara and Saint Margaret. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after A. Tiarini.

The marriage of Mary and Joseph. Engraving by S.A. Bolswert after P.P. Rubens.

A surgeon loses his wedding ring inside the body of a female patient. Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.

The mystic marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria and the infant Christ; the latter sits in the lap of the Virgin Mary, who sits next to Joseph. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after P. Tibaldi.

King Dushyanta proposing marriage with a ring to Shakuntala. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.

Section of a cystic mass isolated from the parotid gland

A hand which has suffered a bad wound while in contact with machinery owing to a finger ring which has broken and torn the flesh. Colour lithograph by E. Lukács, 1950.

Catalogue of the finger rings, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman : in the Departments of Antiquities, British Museum / by F. H. Marshall.

Loves garland, or, Posies for rings, hand-kerchers, & gloves and such pretty tokens that lovers send their loves. A reprint. Whereunto is added a collection of posie mottoes ... entitled, Ye garland of ye Sette of odd volumes. To which is prefixed an introduction, in which some trite things are said concerning the efforts of the early alchemists to transmute the baser metals into gold ... / by James Roberts Brown.

The story of the jackdaw of Rheims. Coloured magic lantern slides.

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A hand which has suffered a bad wound while in contact with machinery owing to a finger ring which has broken and torn the flesh. Colour lithograph by E. Lukács, 1950.

Catalogue of the finger rings, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman : in the Departments of Antiquities, British Museum / by F. H. Marshall.

The story of the jackdaw of Rheims. Coloured magic lantern slides.

The mystic marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria to the Christ child; Saint Joseph looks at angels who bear attributes of Saint Barbara and Saint Margaret. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after A. Tiarini.