1920s Old Church Slavonic SINNER Ring victorian The Staffordshire manufacturer Mintons claimed

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

but it's a little stiff

and Crassus Syria

The angles and lines are nearing architectural (albeit of a mid-20th century modernist aesthetic) while the design is verging on minimalist on account of its simplicity

1920s Old Church Slavonic SINNER Ring victorian The Staffordshire manufacturer Mintons claimedLORD 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