Signet Rings
Signet rings worn by the family members down the generations bore the crests (on the left). In the painting of Admiral John Carter R.N. 1820 (shown above) he is wearing his signet ring with a blue stone bearing the Carter of Castle Martin Crest.
This ring was subsequently inherited by Colonel Duncan Carter-Campbell in the 1930s by which time it had become badly worn.
In early 1960 whilst exercising his horse on the Penicuik Estate, Midlothian the ring slipped from his finger never to be found again.
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