New ground was broken in the same sale with the price fetched for Rothschild cameos and intaglios formerly displayed at Waddesdon Manor.
The Italian travels are reflected in his acquisition of Italian seventeenth- and eighteenth-century paintings and bronzes, classical and renaissance cameos and intaglios and Italian maiolica.
The majority of the Roman finds were of finger-rings, many with carved intaglios or other engravings, used for stamping seals.
There is also always the challenge before a man of sensibility as to how many rings set with antique intaglios he can get onto his hands and still be able to move his fingers.