Thoughts On Found Ring

[angellionel]

i take it theres still no answer! the mystry continues. willy

Is this thread still alive? I gave up trying to obtain more details a long time ago willy. lol I guess the best that can be said is that the ring is at the very least from the 1800's? In any case, it is a nice ring, and with it being at least 22k I'm just glad that it is in my collection.

[CODY]

Amen Angel.

[zeus9876]

Not going to read back through the whole thread so, Have you cleaned it at all ? Taken it to a jewelers for testing ? No hallmarks? If you can post or send me some photo's i will check with a few places on this side of the pond for you. But i will need all the info you can provide.

Joel

[lee]

oh im soooo gona open up a can of worms here,
looking at the markings inside the ring thay look more and more like rune markings like on the kensington rune stone.
could it ?...could it possably be.......dare i say it.........templar .
thay got to the usa in 1362 i beleve and looking at the ring it is very gothic which was a trait of the templars.
google the kensington runestone and take a look ya self.

[angellionel]

Not going to read back through the whole thread so, Have you cleaned it at all ? Taken it to a jewelers for testing ? No hallmarks? If you can post or send me some photo's i will check with a few places on this side of the pond for you. But i will need all the info you can provide.

Joel

Thank for the offer Joel!

I did not clean the ring other than rinse it with water to remove some of the caked-on soil. And yes, I did take it to a jeweler. He confirmed the high gold content, but was unable to offer any other information.

Below are two links within this thread where I posted close-up photos of the ring.

http://www.americandetectorist.com/f...27925#msg27925

http://www.americandetectorist.com/f...30930#msg30930

At the following links I also posted comments I received from curators at The Victoria and Albert Museum in London and The British Museum's Department of Prehistory and Europe.

[url=http://www.americandetectorist.com/forum/index.php?topic=2600.msg33548#msg33548]http://www.americandetectorist.com/forum/index.php?topic=2600.msg33548#msg3354/url]

http://www.americandetectorist.com/f...33644#msg33644

And this next one is a post I made at a antiques jewelry forum.

[url=http://forum.langantiques.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=338&sid=5737088394250 2c11402caa4956ca1c8]http://forum.langantiques.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=338&sid=5737088394250 2c11402caa4956ca1c/url]

I hope that helps.

oh im soooo gona open up a can of worms here,
looking at the markings inside the ring thay look more and more like rune markings like on the kensington rune stone.
could it ?...could it possably be.......dare i say it.........templar .
thay got to the usa in 1362 i beleve and looking at the ring it is very gothic which was a trait of the templars.
google the kensington runestone and take a look ya self.

lol lol


I guess I can dream, can't I. lol

I'll look up information on what you mentioned. Thanks Lee!

[zeus9876]

From Chef Geoff on Detecting Wales website

Well one thing is for sure and that's WOW! what a beauty.lol
Well I thought at first it was Roman then changed my mind to North African but then I took a look at the writing which to me looks like a logogram (chinese or Japanese) so I had a look at the jewellery from there and while this is by no means identical, I think you can see the stone setting (entrapment) is similar. Just another idea to throw around and maybe a new avenue of search.

[zeus9876]

And again

That one is obviously new and it would appear that dating could be tricky unless your an expert as this one is only 60 years old but to my untrained eye looks ancient

[angellionel]

Thanks Joel! Hey! that second one does have some of the same design aspects. Perhaps the ring I found isn't as old as thought? It is 22k or more, so I can't complain either way.