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The Alfred jewel: an historical essay (1901)

Earle, John, 1824-1903, Ashmolean Museum · Oxford, Clarendon Press · leaf 189

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X»30000&OOOQOOOQOOQJOCX30CXXO >{< EXEELVVLF ^ The second of the three rings is inscribed mthe above form with the name of Alfreds father, 15*0 The Alfred Jewel king EthelwLilf, for whom it was evidentlymade. It is in the form of a bishop^s mitre,with only one peak. In 1781, March 22, Lord… … to the surface by the pressure of a cart-wheel,and it lay exposed on the edge of the rut.Mr. Howell, a silversmith in Salisbury, gave theman thirty-four shillings for the value of thegold, and Lord Radnor bought it of Mr. Howell.It still shows the effect of hard pressure, beingalmost flattened. It…

Alfred, King of England, 849-901 · Enamel and enameling

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