I inherited this ring. I know very little about its provenance.
It might have been my grandmother’s. She was Argentine, and if it was hers it probably comes from Argentina.
It might have been my grandfather’s mother’s. She was a Jew who emigrated to Argentina from Eastern Europe in the late 19th or early 20th century. If it was hers, I have no idea where it originally came from. (She was born in Bessarabia; my great-grandfather in Podolia.)
My great-grandmother was a Yiddish speaker, and though I can strain to construe a few of these characters as Hebrew letters, nothing very convincingly.
Can anybody help?
(There are more photos on flickr.)
i bet i’m not the first person to get “throw it in mount doom” vibes.
I agree that the second line looks like Hebrew script. Could it be a date – month, day, year rendered by a non-Hebrew speaking jeweler?
The first line puts me in mind of the Slavic script – Russian, Polish, or Bulgarian. Could it be a name?
I’ve seen the same likenesses, but I can’t find more than two or three consecutive characters that are recognizable from the same script. I’m hoping that somebody eventually comments here saying, Oh, obviously it’s this.