The coat of arms of the von Weiher family

Biedermeier signet ring in tricolor gold with aristocratic coat of arms, circa 1830

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Biedermeier signet ring in tricolor gold with aristocratic coat of arms, circa 1830

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The signet ring was already an important symbol in antiquity and, in addition to its function of sealing documents, was also a representative status object. This ring is such a signet ring and is also a coat of arms ring, because engraved in a dark red carnelian we see a family coat of arms under a crest decorated with ostrich feathers. It is the coat of arms of the noble von Weiher family. The Brandenburg von Weiher family was first mentioned in documents in 1280 with the knight Arnoldus Weyher. Many members of the family were in royal Polish service. In 1637, part of the family was confirmed as Imperial Counts in Prague, which was imperial at the time, with the title "well-born" and an improved coat of arms. The family converted to the Roman Catholic Church and held several positions as imperial councillors, voivodes, starosts, generals and crown treasurers of the aristocratic republic. The Imperial Count Jakob von Weyher, Voivode of Marienburg and Imperial Count of Waldschütz, founded the town of Weyersfrey under Kulm law in 1643. The last representatives of the Brandenburg Weyher family were the descendants of the Pomeranian landowner Hans von Weiher († 1912) and his wife Wilhelmine von Pirch († 1931). Their son Nikolaus von Weiher († 1940) was married to Ina von Schlieffen-Soltikow. Their four sons Dietrich, Hans-Wedig, Klaus and Tamo died in the war, ending the family's genealogy. We were able to acquire the ring from the more distant relatives of the von Weiher family, to whom the ring came by inheritance. The octagonal cut carnelian of the coat of arms ring represents the von Weiher family's coat of arms. It shows in a silver shield two red bars, each with three curved, interlocking wolf's teeth on the inside, above the upper bar three red roses set in bars, on the helmet with red-silver covers three silver-red-silver ostrich feathers. The ring itself is remarkably crafted, as it is made of three-colored gold with three-dimensional flower trimmings on the ring shoulders. The different gold colors are used to emphasize the three-dimensional flower decoration. This goldsmith technique "a trois coleurs", which originated in France, experienced its greatest heyday in Germany during the Biedermeier period. Based on its shape and design, we date the ring to around 1830. It has a ring width of 64 and, as it is a hollow ring, cannot be resized.

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The coat of arms of the von Weiher family

€ 1,890.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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