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.
Read more about this topic: Carter-Campbell Of Possil
Famous quotes containing the words signet and/or rings:
“It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it. To ignorance and sin, it is flint. They adapt to themselves to it as they may; but in proportion as a man has anything in him divine, the firmament flows before him and takes his signet and form.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Ye say they all have passed away,
That noble race and brave;
That their light canoes have vanished
From off the crested wave;
That, mid the forests where they roamed,
There rings no hunters’ shout;
But their name is on your waters,
Ye may not wash it out.”
—Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791–1865)