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  • Firm favourites. No.121, Sponge rings / Chivers & Sons, Ltd.
  • Firm favourites. No.121, Sponge rings / Chivers & Sons, Ltd.
  • Kulu, Himachal Pradesh: two women wearing large nose rings. Photograph, 18--.
  • Queen Mary blessing cramp rings. Oil painting by H. Hayman, 1916.
  • Queen Mary blessing cramp rings. Oil painting by H. Hayman, 1916.
  • A gymnast performing on the rings. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A gymnast performing on the rings. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Queen Mary blessing cramp rings. Oil painting by H. Hayman, 1916.
  • Queen Mary blessing cramp rings. Oil painting by H. Hayman, 1916.
  • Hospital, Liddington, Rutland, England: with coats of arms, seals and signet rings. Line engraving.
  • Astronomy: a diagram of the phases of the moon, and the rings of Saturn. Engraving.
  • Astronomical Ring of an unusual type, signed "Butterfield Paris". Undated, circa 1690. This instrument is closer to an equinoctial ring dial than most astronomical rings.
  • Pekon, Myanmar (Burma): eleven Padaung people, including four who wear neck-rings to lengthen the neck. Photograph, 19--.
  • Antiquities found in stone coffins in Chichester Cathedral, including silver chalices and gold rings. Engraving by Thomas King, 1830.
  • Two women with large nose rings wearing bright saris standing next to some baskets. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • Sikkim and Tibet: eleven people of the Chumba (Chumbi) Valley; two of the women wear large nose rings. Photograph, 18--.
  • Astronomical Ring of an unusual type, showing the side of the instrument "Butterfield Paris". Undated, circa 1690. This instrument is closer to an equinoctial ring dial than most astronomical rings.
  • A group of women and children wearing decorated rings in their noses: Bombay at the time of the plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • Two wedding rings representing the safety of being faithful in long-term sexual relationships; advertisement by the State of California AIDS Education Campaign. Lithograph.
  • Astronomical Ring of an unusual type, signed "Butterfield Paris". Showing the opposite side of the instrument to that on which Butterfield's signature occurs. Undated, circa 1690. This instrument is closer to an equinoctial ring dial than most astronomical rings.
  • Man holding percussion instruments made of hollow brass rings, containing small balls, played with the hands, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
  • Physical exercises for girls : comprising plain, fancy, and step marching, free movements, and exercises in dumb-bells, wands, Indian clubs, and calisthenic rings / by Therese D. Stempel.
  • A family caught in an avalanche along the Mount St. Bernard Pass; a woman frantically rings the bell thus breaking the cord. Aquatint by J.P.M. Jazet after H. Lecomte.
  • Apparatus to straighten the spine. Made for a child. The shoulder rings are adjustable and the back plate has a narrow extension to the base of the spine. Late 18th century.
  • Trunk and roots of a pine tree cut to show growth rings; microscopic views of wood cells in longitudinal and transverse section and of a root tip. Chromolithograph by H.J. Ruprecht, 1877.
  • A girl setting off on a walk along a country road, leaving behind cigarette butts, cigarettes and smoke-rings; representing the smoke-free status of a group of school students. Colour lithograph for Stivoro (Stichting Volksgezondheid en Roken), ca. 2000.
  • Onion ring
  • Stethoscope with rubber ring as percussor. A grooved, but ring missing, B grooved, but ring missing, Burrows, Arnold, circa 1895
  • Electro-galvanic ring.
  • Onion ring, illustration