Help needed with rings & buttons

Dan32981

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Help needed with rings & buttons

Hi everyone i could use your expertise with a few items i have found over the past year but havent posted them till now, any information would be helpful. First & Second pic are of a "gold colored ring" with the stamp "Contempo" on the inside. Appears to be in good shape with no corrosion, gold plated? or gold? Has seven clear stones as well and a little weight to it. The third and fourth pic are of a button i found at an older homesite and havent been able to find any information on it. I can make out on the back the words CHENEY and B HAM. The 5th and 6th pic are of another ring i found at a 40-50's school, it appears to be pewter, and it looks to me like an old "Spoon Ring" made from a spoon handle. And finally the 7th and 8th pic are of a flat button about 1 1/2 in diameter found at an old Hotel site that opperated from 1892-1916. Thanks in advance! Happy Dirt Fishing!

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Re: Help needed with rings & buttons

I think you should post one at a time with a new post for each one, unless they were all found together or somehow related to each other.
 

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"CHENEY BHAM" (Birmingham, England) is a 20th century button backmark. The design is that of a British Army general service button.

Could the ring mark be CONTEMPORA (a brand/line of the ArtCarved Jewelry Company in Austin, Texas)?

CONTEMPO was a brand name used by the Bulova Watch Co., but I don't recall any rings marked with it.

Also, there are RETRO CONTEMPO rings.
 

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Re: Help needed with rings & buttons

PBK said:
"CHENEY BHAM" (Birmingham, England) is a 20th century button backmark. The design is that of a British military button.
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Its 1902- present Army General Service Button - British (probably WWII)
 

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Thanks, Crusader! I was just tweaking my post. :thumbsup: :coffee2:
 

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Re: Help needed with rings & buttons

CRUSADER said:
PBK said:
"CHENEY BHAM" (Birmingham, England) is a 20th century button backmark. The design is that of a British military button.
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Its 1902- present Army General Service Button - British (probably WWII)
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Thanks crusader and PBK, im thinking WWII the house i found the button at use to have local militia drill in the field. Do you think the "contempo" ring is a gold stamp or????
 

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Re: Help needed with rings & buttons

The ring on the pen looks to be a "spoon handle" ring. If so, it's probably silver plated.
Scott
 

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Re: Help needed with rings & buttons

I have dug almost the exact same button as the last one you posted. If it is rather large, with no backmark, then it is 18th c.


Regards,



Buckles
 

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AU24K said:
The ring on the pen looks to be a "spoon handle" ring. If so, it's probably silver plated.
Scott
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I agree, it looks as though it were made from a spoon, but that doesn't mean it's plated. Spoon rings could be nickel silver, or even sterling...it has a nice design, looks pretty old, but I couldn't guess what this is, based on the pics. Looks like it could be pewter I suppose

Your first picture of the gold ring looks plated to me...just basing this on the dark marks on the inside (pitting) and rim
 

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Re: Help needed with rings & buttons

Excellent digs!

HH

LW
 

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Re: Help needed with rings & buttons

I agree with Scott that the ring on the pen appears to have been made from a spoon handle. The pattern is an unusual one, too, apparently depicting a mythological nereid (sea goddess)— perhaps Thetis— riding a hippocamp (sea horse). If so, the following listing from the 1909-10 fall & winter catalog of the T. Eaton Co. in Toronto might be of interest:

"Our Thetis Pattern One of the heaviest Silver- Plated lines of
Spoons and Forks made in Canada, at the issuing of this Catalogue.
Each piece bears our stamp of highest grade."

Update: I have now determined that it is not this pattern.
 

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Re: Help needed with rings & buttons

I disagree...

IMO, the second ring is not a spoon handle (although it resembles one), but a full ring with "belt with buckle" sculpt on the bottom of the ring.

I do however whole-heartidy agree with the Nereid / hippocamp theme.
 

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Re: Help needed with rings & buttons

You may very well be right— of course, I don't think so; otherwise, I wouldn't have posted what I did! :D

I still believe that it's a spoon ring. However, after a bit of further research, I can confirm that it is not the Eaton "Thetis" pattern, as I had originally suspected from their 1909-10 catalog listing. That pattern, despite its name, turns out to be very different indeed, as shown below.

Oh, well... onward, etc.

Thetis.jpg
 

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PBK said:
You may very well be right— of course, I don't think so; otherwise, I wouldn't have posted what I did! :D

I still believe that it's a spoon ring. However, after a bit of further research, I can confirm that it is not the Eaton "Thetis" pattern, as I had originally suspected from their 1909-10 catalog listing. That pattern, despite its name, turns out to be very different indeed, as shown below.

Oh, well... onward, etc.
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Perhaps this site could be of help on the spoon ring.


http://www.replacements.com/index.htm?s1=kx&982&

As can be seen by the back, the left side and the right side are shaped differently where they meet. That is indicitive of a "spoon ring". I've made several when I was younger. Due to the tarnishing is why my opinion was that it was plated.

Scott
 

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AU24K said:
As can be seen by the back, the left side and the right side are shaped differently where they meet. That is indicitive of a "spoon ring".
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:icon_thumright:
 

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PBK said:
AU24K said:
As can be seen by the back, the left side and the right side are shaped differently where they meet. That is indicitive of a "spoon ring".
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Belt Motif in this example IMO :o

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but maybe, after looking again and again I dunno.

Spoon rings generally dont have handles on both sides that meet at the bottom of the design... do they?
 

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Well I tried to track down the Nereid riding on a hippocamp spoon and best I could find is that theme is common among Roman antiquities collected by the British.

So if your button is from a British uniform...odds are somewhere is a British spoon maker's pattern with Nereid riding on a hippocamp and some British soldier made a ring out of a spoon.

That's my guess.
 

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It would have HAD to been made from a spoon that has handle going in both directions.

Am I the only one who sees the belt/buckle motif?

Google spoon rings and look at the pics - not even close.
 

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Part of the problem is the picture is blurry. If the poster could sharpen the focus on the back of the
"ring" that would be dandy.

But defo Nereid riding on a hippocamp. Whatever it is.
 

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