1920s Old Church Slavonic SINNER Ring victorian The stone is carved as

The stone is carved as an owl

For nothing that swims and does not merely stick or cling to rocks is easily taken or captured without trouble by man as are asses by wolves

Later added

a fearsome thing with a surface of gold like scaly snake-skin

The Staffordshire manufacturer Mintons claimed to have first created the medium in order to simulate the appearance of the white marble favoured by sculptors since the Greek archaic period

1920s Old Church Slavonic SINNER Ring victorian The stone is carved asLORD JESUS CHRIST, SON OF GOD, HAVE MERCY ON ME, A SINNER. These words, in Old Church Slavonic, are emblazoned on this early 20th century ring, in vivid royal blue enamel. Had me stumped for quite some time after it quickly became clear it wasn't Russian as I'd initially thought. From Wikipedia: "Old Church Slavonic or Old Slavonic was the first Slavic literary language. Historians credit the 9th century Byzantine missionaries Saints Cyril and