Please Help ID this find

[asamado]

Found this in a site surrounding an old army post and I was wondering if its a relic.

Thanks
tony

 

[ThatCannonballGuy]

Tony wrote:
"Found this in a site surrounding an old army post and I was wondering if its a relic." [photo also posted]

It would help a lot if you would include something else in the photo for "scale" (like, say, a dime).

How big is the item? Also, what does the item seem to be to you? I'm asking because it kinda looks like a ring, but your front-view-only photo doesn't reveal enough to be sure about that

If it is a ring, are there any markings inside the band, and if so, what?

I don't mean to be giving you a hard time. But we viewers need more info from you than you posted before any of us can give you a reliable answer about the identification and time-period of your item.

Regards,
TheCannonballGuy

 

[asamado]

Hi CannonballGuy:
Thanks for your input, no hard time at all. It

 

[Steve in PA]

n/t

 

[ThatCannonballGuy]

Okay, thanks for providing additional description - and the more-informative photo. I asked for them because though I myself am not greatly knowledgable about rings, some of the ring-experts in this forum could use your additional details to help identify and date your item.

Now, given that I'm not a ring-expert, there is one possibly-significant thing I can tell you about your ring. In my 32 years of coin/ring & relic-hunting, I haven't seen a ring we could be sure was manufactured prior to the 20th century which had the "divided band" form. (Made that way to permit easy adjustment to the wearer's finger-size). That form seems to be primarily (but perhaps not entirely) a 20th-century development.

Caution-note: Readers, do not mistake a "divided band" with a band that has cracked/split. Lots of rings were made from a straight strip of metal, which was bent into a circle, then the ends of the strip were soldered or brazed together to hide the "seam" in the circle. Sometimes that seam will pop back open ...especially when a slightly-buried ring has been repeatedly frozen and warmed by exposure to weather extremes. I myself dug a very old gold-alloy wedding ring that that had happened to. Don't mistake a popped seam for a "divided band" form of ring.

Regards,
TheCannonballGuy

 

[JOE in MD]

mine are not copper looking. Mine look like there made of white metal or something.

 

[asamado]

Thanks CannonballGuy, your information is greatly appreciated.

Tony