Colonial Womans Wedding Ring, maybe?

[boondocker]

Got out Sunday to a new field and found this ring, well I think it's a ring, I think it's made of either copper or brass, hard to tell. Doesnt have any writing on it and appears to be cast, it has a seam around its circumference and one on its width, I hope the photos show it. Across the street was a garrison house built before 1680 and the house on the property was built around 1780'ish, Any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks Dean

 

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[CRUSADER]

Great, looking forward to seeing them. I'm almost 100% sure its a ring

so 99% then

 

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[boondocker]

Great, looking forward to seeing them. I'm almost 100% sure its a ring

so 99% then

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[texan connection]

Def A brass wedding band, I have many

 

[BioProfessor]

Unless the ring is seamed where the metal was rolled and soldered to make the right size, I use the domed outside - straight inside test to call it a ring. Compression rings are like that but they usually taper to a much thinner edge. Rings were also worn and most of mine show some evidence of that.

Daryl

 

[pinebarrens1]

i have found acouple out in the woods in nj .... i call them poor mans rings . ...great find

 

[BioProfessor]

They actually were. But most people then were.

Daryl

 

[CRUSADER]

i have found acouple out in the woods in nj .... i call them poor mans rings . ...great find

thats what we call them as well

 

[BuckleBoy]

I am still willing to get a good photo of all of my rings when I get a chance. They are all 19th c. brass wedding bands, and I probably have 10 or 12 of them. Here is one that was just dug, and it shows the seam as well. The finder has polished and shined it up, but it is certainly brass and not gold:

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,318942.0.html


Regards,


Buckles

 

[CRUSADER]

I am still willing to get a good photo of all of my rings when I get a chance. They are all 19th c. brass wedding bands, and I probably have 10 or 12 of them. Here is one that was just dug, and it shows the seam as well. The finder has polished and shined it up, but it is certainly brass and not gold:

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,318942.0.html


Regards,


Buckles

Can't see a seam all the way around the middle on that one?

 

[Lucas]

That one was formed on a mandrel and soldered. Not cast.

 

[boondocker]

this one was cast a really poormans ring

 

[BuckleBoy]

I am still willing to get a good photo of all of my rings when I get a chance. They are all 19th c. brass wedding bands, and I probably have 10 or 12 of them. Here is one that was just dug, and it shows the seam as well. The finder has polished and shined it up, but it is certainly brass and not gold:

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,318942.0.html


Regards,


Buckles

Can't see a seam all the way around the middle on that one?

See reply #11. As I stated before, I have no idea what that horizontal seam is. All of the ones I've dug have the vertical seam, but none of them have the horizontal one.


-Buck

 

[boondocker]

I did some more cleaning on the ring today and the horizontal seam is only on the outside of the ring there is no seam on the inside of the ring just the vertical seam. maybe the horizontal one was decorative

 

[cti4sw]

Hate to resurrect an old thread but I found something like this recently and was Googling for comparison.

I can't say 100% that the OP's find is a ring but it's not a compression ferrule. I work with compression ferrules every day in the lab at work, and that is NOT a ferrule.

As for the "seam", wedding band designs are done all the time. Who's to say the person who made this didn't make it with a crude, rudimentary symmetrical design? Craftsmanship far more intricate than that predates the Crusades so I don't see it as impossible.

 

[Huntalot1]

I found a similar ring today ,but not as wide and no seams. Working a ca. 1760's site in North Central MA. hand forged nail in the same hole