Family Symbols: The Rose and The Pine Tree
Above: The owner of this ring, Pedro Moura Pinheiro, clarifies: “My wife’s family name is Rosa, or “Rose” in English, and mine is Pinheiro, “Pine tree”. When we got married, almost nine decades back, we asked in the jeweler’s shop to get an engraving on our wedding rings of the pictures of our family names rather than the common practice of writing your first names.”