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The ring, crafted in gold and enamel, is a mourning ring linked to an ancestor of Gawdy Hall Estate in Norfolk.
He is described as a bachelor who was a notable sportsman' and enjoyed rackety exploits' by The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
I knew this was something very special and I did a bit of a dance.
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