A Mystery ring (Help!), some silver, and four wheats!

[EpsilonMinus]

Hey guys, I wanted to get in another hunt before the snow comes, and therefore another forum post. Although I didn't find anything very exceptional this time, I am still very pleased with the current trend of finding at least two silver things each time out for the last three hunts, let's hope that keeps up or increases! As usual, here are my goods with some comments and questions.

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Here's the total loot. $2.60 in clad, four Wheat's, a silver Ankh, half of a silver ring with some little stones (mower hit, I assume), a mystery ring that needs to be identified, and a weird silver-plated graduation thing that appears to be a paperweight or something...

Close up of the jewelry stuff.
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Three of the four Wheat pennies I found... Not sure where the fourth one went, hah. 1926, 1944(not pictured), 1945, and 1955! Nice!
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This is the weird thing that I believe is silver plated because a small piece but broke off and revealed the crap-stuffing. Any idea what this thing is?
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Ok, when I dug this I thought I found gold, but now I'm not really sure. It 'looks' very much like gold but it doesn't seem heavy enough. That said, I don't have any gold things to compare to it, but it sure looks like the gold rings I see in peoples pics here, although a bit more rough. In this pic you see what looks like a brownish-red ring with gold-flakey stuff peeling off, but its actually the opposite. The more I rub on it, the more the gold-ish stuff shows. The inside of the ring is much less dirty/grimy, and more like what the outside appears to be after lots of rubbing on it.

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For this last pic, I made my best attempt to represent the marks on the inside. I have spent an hour with a magnifying glass looking at the two marks stamped in there and I still have no idea what either one says. When you are looking at one, that appears right side up, the one next to it appears up-side down. I'm not sure, but that's how it seems.

I would really appreciate it if anyone can help me figure out what this ring is, as the mystery is driving me crazy. I will now say what I 'thought' the marks my possibly be until I gave up trying. (With the perspective shown in the pic)

Left word:

EPAD, FPAD, 99AD, BPAD, B9AD... The first two characters are very vague, but I am 95% certain the second two are 'AD'.

Right word:

MALE, WALE, HALE, WAGE, MAGE... With this stamp, I am not sure about any of it, it even appears as completely different words at different angles. I am pretty sure its four characters, but it could be five.

Sorry about the extremely underwhelming pics of the stamps/marks, they are so small and extremely shiny that my camera can't get any closer.

If anyone can help me figure this out, or even give an opinion as to what type of metal this even is, I would greatly appreciate it! I have googled the hell out of every possibility that has come to mind and all have been fails.

Thanks for looking, and happy hunting!

-EpsilonMinus

 

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[SkyPirate]

Great close up pictures but those initials are really hard to read.

 

[Knightwalker]

Very interesting finds.
HH in 2010

 

[Noodle]

Those rings were popular in the 60s and 70s. Don't know why, but I saw plenty of them then. - Noodle

 

[Texasgopher]

Good job on getting out before the storm! I am NOT looking forward to Thursday Very nice wheats! Even an oldie. 1926 is an early date for sure. Did you dig it deeper than the rest? It looks like it was deeper. Nice Silver too! I really like the Egyptian silver thing. Can't tell you anything about the ring, sorry. It's not gold in my opinion. You will know when it's gold believe me. But I have never dug a junk ring that had marks so I don't know. Great finds all around. Catch ya on the flip side of a really cold couple of days.

TG

 

[Cal_Cobra]

nice finds

EP usually = ElectroPlate, but in my experience dug gold plate usually bubbles right off...so not sure what you have Might be worth getting checked, who knows maybe it's the real McCoy

 

[p2c]

nice finds

EP usually = ElectroPlate, but in my experience dug gold plate usually bubbles right off...so not sure what you have Might be worth getting checked, who knows maybe it's the real McCoy

I agree, it looks like what is left to a gold plated ring to me. From one angle, the photo looks like it could read EPAG -- maybe it was not gold plated but silver plated? Underlying metal may be brass, which is what that ring looks like to me. Good luck with it though.

 

[Moonshadow]

Cool find.....Sorry, can't help with an ID though.....WTG!

HH,
Moon

 

[EpsilonMinus]

Great close up pictures but those initials are really hard to read.

You're not kidding! Even looking at them through a magnifying glass doesn't help. I sort of get the impression that if its plated they stamped the metal under the plate, then plated it... or they used a really weak stamp. No idea, heh.

 

[vibes]

You might want to do a search on shrimp rings

 

[fmerg]

imho the ring is plated over copper

 

[EpsilonMinus]

Very interesting finds.
HH in 2010

Thanks!

 

[EpsilonMinus]

nice finds

EP usually = ElectroPlate, but in my experience dug gold plate usually bubbles right off...so not sure what you have Might be worth getting checked, who knows maybe it's the real McCoy

That's a very interesting clue for sure, I had no idea about that. Thanks!

You might want to do a search on shrimp rings

Wow, you are right on, I can see the mystery beginning to close, heh. Thanks, that is very helpful!

imho the ring is plated over copper

I am sort of thinking this as well, actually.

 

[EpsilonMinus]

Good job on getting out before the storm! I am NOT looking forward to Thursday Very nice wheats! Even an oldie. 1926 is an early date for sure. Did you dig it deeper than the rest? It looks like it was deeper. Nice Silver too! I really like the Egyptian silver thing. Can't tell you anything about the ring, sorry. It's not gold in my opinion. You will know when it's gold believe me. But I have never dug a junk ring that had marks so I don't know. Great finds all around. Catch ya on the flip side of a really cold couple of days.

TG

Thanks, man. I am not looking forward to the coming weather either. One of the things that bothers me just as much as the weather itself is the abruptness of it. You will be out in a t-shirt in the sun and then suddenly you can see your breath. I can't imagine how that might affect sensitive equipment like metal detectors. About the 1926 penny, to be honest I can't recall the depth of it. The place I went had such an imbalanced overload of pennies, and mostly very filthy ones, that as I found them, I just threw them in the bag, heh. It was like there was some type of weird party there where people were using pennies as confetti. Well, pennies and pull-tabs. That said, I don't think I found any coins deeper than like 5 inches that day.

 

[EpsilonMinus]

Those rings were popular in the 60s and 70s. Don't know why, but I saw plenty of them then. - Noodle

Interesting insight there. The only times I have seen people wearing these they have been older, overweight people who have 'grown into them', as in having started wearing them prior to being overweight and now have no chance of getting them off, heh. That doesn't really apply to this one though, as it's barely big enough for me to get on to my pinky, heh.

 

[EpsilonMinus]

I agree, it looks like what is left to a gold plated ring to me. From one angle, the photo looks like it could read EPAG -- maybe it was not gold plated but silver plated? Underlying metal may be brass, which is what that ring looks like to me. Good luck with it though.

I think so to, after reading the comments and opinions, that seems about right, regarding plating. I really don't think it's silver though, but maybe brass. I hope brass doesn't keep fooling me, hah. Thanks!

 

[EpsilonMinus]

Cool find.....Sorry, can't help with an ID though.....WTG!

HH,
Moon

No problem, thanks!

 

[Monty]

That graduation thing is made for a charm bracelet and probably a graduation present for a young lady. I found one I thought was plated but it was really heavy and it tested out 14k gold! That strange little thing I think is a sign of the zodiac but I don't know which one. Monty

 

[vibes]

monty, it's an ankh cross, an ancient Egyptian symbol of life.

 

[Monty]

Well it didn't help those old Egyptians as they are all dead now! Thanks for setting me straight. Next time someone asks me my sign I'm going to say Ankh and watch them scratch their heads. Monty