WW1 Niello Silver AMARA 1916 Trench Art Signet Ring chalcedony Kabana is an artisanal design

Kabana is an artisanal design house based in New Mexico

and the general optimism and "faith in progress" rapidly diminishing

and Pink Sapphire

it's well made and quite dainty and delicate in profile which is typical for the era

WW1 Niello Silver AMARA 1916 Trench Art Signet Ring chalcedony Kabana is an artisanal designDATE: Art Deco, c. 1916 Niello signet ring commemorating the siege of Kut Al Amara that took place in Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) from the 7th December 1915 to the 29th April 1916. An 8000 strong British garrison stationed in the town of Kut, around 100 miles south of Baghdad, was besieged by the Ottoman 6th army. It was said, by historian Christopher Catherwood, to be "the worst defeat of the Allies in World War 1", with 23,000 dead or wounded on