WW1 Niello Silver AMARA 1916 Trench Art Signet Ring sardonyx Makers mark RC

Makers mark RC

The back features the floral emblems of the (then) three nations

"The stone is an amethyst

and set with a ruby

Harry Blanckensee is well known on the road as a traveller in high-class goods

WW1 Niello Silver AMARA 1916 Trench Art Signet Ring sardonyx Makers mark RCDATE: Art Deco, c. 1916 Niello signet ring commemorating the siege of Kut Al Amara that took place in Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) from the 7th December 1915 to the 29th April 1916. An 8000 strong British garrison stationed in the town of Kut, around 100 miles south of Baghdad, was besieged by the Ottoman 6th army. It was said, by historian Christopher Catherwood, to be "the worst defeat of the Allies in World War 1", with 23,000 dead or wounded on