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Marvolo Gaunt's Ring was an heirloom of the Gaunt family, descendants of Salazar Slytherin and Cadmus Peverell. It is a gold ring inset with a black stone engraved with what Marvolo Gaunt called the Peverell coat of arms (having come into the Gaunt line from an heiress of the Peverells, not the Slytherin family), which is actually the symbol of the Deathly Hallows. The signet ring passed through the male Gaunts, generation to generation, until it was stolen from Morfin Gaunt by Tom Riddle while Tom framed Morfin for the murders of the Riddles.

While at Hogwarts, Tom openly wore the ring. He later used the ring, as an heirloom of the Gaunt family, as one of his Horcruxes. Tom did not enchant the ring right away, as he was seen wearing it while asking Horace Slughorn about horcruxes, as seen through Slughorn's memories in a pensieve.

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