That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 09, 2024

/// In this Portrait (by Lorenzo Lotto)

of a Jeweler, who loved his gelato,

there are rings on display.

The full price buyers pay.

“Do not owe” is an old Lotto motto.

“This fine decoder ring out of a box of cereal will set you back 200 lira.”

Psst! Dude, I need to raise so cash for my mother who’s in the hospital. These are worth a couple grand each. For you $200.

As a child, Lorenzo wanted to be the ringmaster of the circus. But later he realized there was more money in being a ringmaster of jewelry…

Little known painting of Sauron in his early days, when he was still failing to make magic rings

One ringy dingy … two ringy dingy …

- Ernesto, brother of Ernestine the telephone operator.

I thought it was going to be a Dan Rather joke!

Or Tom Brady can wear an Infinity Gauntlet.

Before embarking upon his career as a bigamist Antonio Borsa displays the collection of wedding rings he intends to use when proposing to his future love interests.

Be sure to drink your ovaltine

Well, how about this one? Now will you marry me?

Just imagine what it was like that when folks started to realize there was a relationship between numbers and the real world

“Bad news lady. It’s your fuel iniezione. These old Fiats are famous for that. 4000 lira should cover it.”

The only thing worse than someone who cheats to win is someone who’s good enough to win without cheating – but does it anyway.

Tom Brady is scum.

Mr Brady wears a different one each day. Superman wears Tom Brady pyjamas.

“Say again, please, sir … what exactly do you mean by a Prince Albert? I’m sure I misheard you.”

Portrait of a Jeweler: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Portraits of jewelers" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found and once there find the text string 092, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. After getting confirmation, I’ve corrected the Current Location (why this took longer than usual). The Notes archived link and final Source/Photographer link have descriptions of the painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3352 (July 9, 2024) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger, if you trim what’s after .jpg from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 2 works by him have been used here, the May 10, 2012, strip being the prior. GoComics has deactivated the hyperlinks and removed the new lines in my comment there; but, perhaps the text remains informative.

P.S. Solstice*1947: Mr. Melcher has answered the question you left as a June 3 reply. Just letting you know in case GoComics hasn’t pointed you to it.

I really made all my money selling class rings.

“It Don’t mean a thing if she don’t get a ring…”

Where is La Goulou???

Still trying to figure out the football pressure gauge.

The guy had excellent jewelry to sell but his personality sucked…………..