"Excuse Haste" Tortoise Seal Fob ring game It's also reminiscent of a

It's also reminiscent of a chilli pepper

the "button hole"

Marks: Marks unclear

tricky-to-describe double fan or scallop shell or satellite dish or Elizabethan ruff

broadcasting a distinctive radio signal and throwing the USA into the 'Sputnik crisis'

"Excuse Haste" Tortoise Seal Fob ring game It's also reminiscent of aGeorgian Regency era seal fob featuring an amber orange glass "Tassie" intaglio depicting a tortoise under the words EXCUSE HASTE. It's an interesting, tongue in cheek greeting that could potentially be used in multiple ways is the joke the tortoise (slow response to a previous letter) or the words (a little like the "sent from my iPhone" email signoff used today as an apology for brevity misspellings)? The fob itself is highly ornate with flower