Silver Ring from Surf - Handcrafted?

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Yesterday afternoon SoCal had a minus tide, so I hit the surf in the Belmont Shore area of Long Beach. We have another good minus tide this afternoon (-1.7), but I don't think my arm can take it, scooping that road tar muck at Long Beach. Maybe I will head south this afternoon.

On my 9th hole I scooped a cool looking silver ring. It looks to be old and handcrafted, but I don't know my rings very well. I took some before photos and a couple of after photo after a quick dip in jewelry cleaner. The area of the surf I worked was not short on targets. The lead and crap in the photo, less clad and trash, is what I had to scoop, .

This morning for a couple hours, I hit an area around a restroom restoration project (photo below) and worked the area early before the big scoop arrived. In the front of the restroom you can see a large electrical panel that has wires running under the sand that made the whole area extremely hard on the ears to scan. I knew all the EMF would drive most, if not all MD'ers away, so I was hoping for another quality ring. I did get a ton of clad, and all the smaller stuff you can see in the photo, including a empty coke bottle (not the coke you drink) in my scoop while swinging for some clad.

Any thoughts about the type and age of the ring would be appreciated. Thanks for Looking.....


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The ATX sure likes to find Lead :)
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Sure looks like a mid-1970s custom to me. I remember my Mother having a ring very much like that in 1975 or so. Sweet Find!
 

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very cool, love the minus tides
 

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That is one sweet ring , good going!

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It looks like a lost wax cast ring as opposed to being a "smithed" ring!
(Made by hand from sheet silver and drawn wire)!
Looks like the stuff I use to see in the 70's.
Awesome!
 

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Very cool ring, Congrats!
 

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Very interesting looking ring!
Love to hunt a beach that looks low like that!
Nice negative tide scene.
Good luck on researching it, maybe try a jeweler.
Congrats!
 

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That is a very interesting find, SCBS. What is the size of the ring? Must be a big one to fit those two stones in it

Great pics, tool

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Nice ring. It is definitely a cast item, not hand made. Could be a one-off, or they could have made many from one original model.
 

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That is a very interesting rind, SCBS. What is the size of the ring? Must be a big one to fit those two stones in it

Great pics, tool

Lorraine

Hi Lorraine ... I just measured the ring. It's a little out of round and it appears to be a size 8-3/4 or maybe a 9. Thanks Lorraine
 

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