Very rare bevelled edge white enamel mourning ring for two brothers, one killed at the Patna Massacre October 1763.
The bezel contains a hair tree of life embroidered on silk. One side of the white enamel reads G.Willson sufferd at Pat E I Oct 6 1763. Other side reads John Willson Ob 8 March 1764 AE 29.
Size 8.
The Patna Massacre was the killing of 45 members of the East India Company mainly English on the 6th October on the order of Nawab Mir Qasim. A monument was placed over the well where the butchered bodies had been thrown during the Massacre. It was one of the bloodiest massacre of Europeans in India, next only to the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
A historically important piece of Anglo-Indian history.