RINGS FOR THE FINGER

FROM THE EARLIEST KNOWN TIMES TO THE PRESENT, WITH FULL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE ORIGIN, EARLY MAKING, MATERIALS, THE ARCHÆOLOGY, HISTORY, FOR AFFECTION, FOR LOVE, FOR ENGAGEMENT, FOR WEDDING, COMMEMORATIVE, MOURNING, ETC.

BY

GEORGE FREDERICK KUNZ, Ph.D., Sc.D., A.M.

WITH 290 ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOR, DOUBLETONE AND LINE

PHILADELPHIA & LONDON

J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

1917

COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

PUBLISHED JANUARY, 1917

PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY AT THE WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS PHILADELPHIA, U.S.A.

COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART EDITION

OF

RINGS

(See Dedication )

Limited to fifteen copies

[1]Miss Sarah Cooper Hewitt, Honorary Associate of the Trustees

[1]Mrs. James O. Green, Honorary Associate of the Trustees

[1]Miss Eleanor G. Hewitt, Honorary Associate of the Trustees

[1]Peter Cooper Hewitt, Vice-President of the U. S. Naval Advisory Board, Trustee

[1]]Edward R. Hewitt, Treasurer

[2]Peter Cooper Bryce, Secretary

[1]Erskine Hewitt,

R. Fulton Cutting, President

Andrew Carnegie, Trustee

J. Pierpont Morgan, Trustee

Charles W. Gould, Trustee

L. C. Levin Jordan, Assistant Secretary

Charles R. Richards, Director

One Copy for the Reading Room of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

George Frederick Kunz, Former Student and Assistant in Chemistry

This copy was printed for

MISS SARAH COOPER HEWITT

With the compliments of the Author

To

PETER COOPER

AND TO

HIS DESCENDANTS

WHO HAVE SO GENEROUSLY AND DEVOTEDLY CARRIED OUT HIS TRADITIONS, AND DEVELOPED THEM AS OCCASION DEMANDED,

AND TO

THE COOPER UNION OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

IN THE LABORATORIES, LECTURE ROOMS AND LIBRARY OF WHICH THE AUTHOR SPENT USEFUL, PROFITABLE EVENING HOURS FOR SEVERAL YEARS, AT A TIME WHEN THERE WERE NO OTHER OPPORTUNITIES OF A SIMILAR NATURE IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK—THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED