Elizabethan grasshopper ring jumps to £42,000
A previously unrecorded Elizabethan gold and enamel signet ring, a gift from the influential Tudor financier and merchant, Sir Thomas Gresham (1519-79), sold for £42,000 at Noonans (24% buyer’s premium).
Its recent discovery brings to 10 the known number of rings in the so-called ‘Grasshopper’ series.…