It was not catalogued as such, but this silver ring modelled as a standing lion with a gold-coloured mane is designed by Moshe Oved (1885-1958), the owner of celebrated Bloomsbury antique shop Cameo Corner where John Benjamin first learnt his trade (see story left).
It has the London hallmarks CC. Oved famously modelled the first of a series of lost wax-cast animal rings (a lamb) while sheltering in the basement of Cameo Corner during the Blitz. He later cast it from his own cufflinks after he learnt that a client’s son had been killed in action.