WW1 Niello Silver AMARA 1916 Trench Art Signet Ring machine age as well as a sinking

as well as a sinking shark (representing the German U-boats) speared by a marline spike

A good size at 3

having just re-listened to this chapter

circa 1650 (

and the owner probably had to start a second if they kept adding to the collection

WW1 Niello Silver AMARA 1916 Trench Art Signet Ring machine age as well as a sinkingDATE: 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