Bidspirit auction | MELDOLA, RAPHAEL BEN MOSES. Personal

MELDOLA, RAPHAEL BEN MOSES. Personal rabbinic signet ring. Burnished gold with central agate stone engraved in Hebrew: “Raphael, the son of my honorable father Moshe, Meldola, a pure Sephardi.” England / Italy ? c. 1800.      PROVENANCE:  Rabbi Meldola’s descendant, the late Rabbi Dr. David de Sola Pool; and then by further descent within the family.     Raphael Meldola (1754-1828), served as a rabbi in his native Livorno before being invited in 1804 to become Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of England where he remained until his death. He is buried alongside his predecessor Rabbi, Haham David Nieto.     “[Meldola’s] name will ever be indissolubly associated with that of Bevis Marks Synagogue.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Meldola_(rabbi).     A RARE PERSONAL ARTIFACT FROM ONE OF THE EARLY, GREAT RABBIS OF ENGLAND.