please help id this ring please

[bangorguy]

hello, i found this ring detecting today but i cant id it. all i do know is that it is a ring. i think it is a toy as it is adjustable. i think it is brass or copper cause it is tarnished. it looks like a mailbox on the top, and has some fancy design on the side of the box. then it has a torch with flames on the left side and the right has weights and scale. then it has a thin piece of metal coming through a small hole, it looks like you would pull it back and then release it for some reason lol. then it has a half ring on the bottom. if anybody can figure it out it's here. thanks everone. "god bless"
ben.

 

[Tubecity]

Wish I could help. I have no idea what you have there.
Keep us informed.

 

[DANGLANGLEY]

Wow, that's an odd find. It doesn't look like a finger ring. I don't have a clue what it is. I'll be watching this one to see if it can be identified. Thanks for posting.

DANGLANGLEY

 

[lostcauses]

I will WAG as this looks to me a decorated tool. for what I am not sure, Sewing, or pitting some fruit?

 

[sniffer]

it looks like part of a scale for weighing gold dust

 

[bangorguy]

this one really has me stumped lol. i have never seen anything like it before, and i have dug some pretty strang stuff. i know it must go around the finger as it is adjustable, like one of those ring's a kid would get from the gumball machine at the store. maybe it is what "sniffer" said, a scale for weighing gold dust. maybe you would put it on your finger and scoop out gold dust or something, but i am in the northeast "bangor maine" if it is that i wonder how in the world it got here. i am detecting a place called the childrens home in bangor maine it was built in 1835 it was for orphaned children. i am going to go detect it agine today. thanks for everyones help. "god bless"
ben

 

[lostcauses]

I am trying to remember a modern version of this thing. The wire down from it and the bottom ring. I just can not remember..

 

[AU24K]

Is it possible that it is a ring for workers who have to cut a lot of twine? When I used to work as a printer, sometimes we'd bundle a stack of items and tie them off with twine and we wore rings that had a cutting edge to cut the twine. Just my WAG.
Scott

 

[traderoftreasures]

could have been for the coca de caino

 

[npbb4]

I had to joint this site after reading for a few months I would like to take a stab at your ring, it may not be a ring. it has been a long time but I have seen 1800's style survey equipment and this looks like it could be a piece off of it. they where made of brass. i would have to look at one somewhere to see if the piece fits. it possible the bottom that hung a plum bob.

 

[traderoftreasures]

welcome npbb4

 

[bangorguy]

hello, all i have been doing some research on the net and i cant find a thing maybe it is from another planet lol. i was thinking the same thing as "npbb4" that it might be from some old survey equipment. it is the most interesting thing i ever detected. thanks for everyones help. and good luck detecting. "god bless" benny.

 

[johnnyi]

Bangor, any chance of getting some close ups of it with better resolution, particularly of how that bottom loop and spring attach? (for instance, does the bottom "loop" turn on a rivet and might be out of whack now? Is the main ring part adjustable?) The thing looks like it has a design on it, which would seem to eliminate the possibility of it being a surveying part of something. It will be a fun one to figure out.

 

[bassasasin]

Only a guess but perhaps a snuff ring. Storage, clip and ring. Missing the cap.

 

[beaks]

is a ring that 007 lost in one of his movies lol

 

[bangorguy]

hello, "johnnyi". i will try to get a better close up photo of it for you, the design is a "torch" and "flame", and on the other side is a "weight scale". the main ring is adjustable like the ones from a childs ring,but this is heavy brass. the bottom ring dont move it is in a fixed position. thats a good thought "bassasasin" a snuff ring i have a couple of poision rings and that crossed my mind too. this is a photo of where i have been detecting i have only detected outback of the place so far. i went to another place today by a stream and got a very nice 1859 indian, and a double ring bullet. well i better go eat my dinner or the wife will scalp me lol. thanks everyone for your help. "god bless" benny.

 

[sassyswingah]

wasn't it originally call the Bangor Orphan Asylum? Incorporated in 1839 with that house being built in 1869 and renamed the Childrens home. Isn't it in the National Register of Historic Places?

 

[bangorguy]

the original name was the "bangor orphan asylum" and yes it is on the "National Register of Historic Places" that is why i only detect out back in the woods where it is off of the property, but yet close enough that you have a good chance of finding stuff. i had to ask where the property lines were as i dont want to cross any lines lol. but i always make sure to get permission to detect or find out where to detect as {no one can detect anything thats on a Historic Place or land} but it would be a detectorest dream lol. tomorrow i am going to a place where the fire of 1911 took place here in bangor hopfully i will find something good. have fun and good luck. "god bless"
ben.

 

[Noodle]

Well, it looks like one end of the top mailbox-looking thing is open to "scoop" up something. Beyond that, I'm a stupido. Good luck! -Noodle

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

... i will try to get a better close up photo of it for you, the design is a "torch" and "flame", and on the other side is a "weight scale". the main ring is adjustable like the ones from a childs ring,but this is heavy brass.

Im thinking with the torch and weight scale that it is no childs ring. I can understand a scoop connection to a scale but I cant figure the torch and flame.... ... a better pic of that may help. I think its some kind of tool that goes on the finger.