Ring or Not a Ring?

[dobber97]

Had a solid clad dime hit today on my T2 and this popped out its made of copper , but feels like a mans ring. I polished it up from what it looked like in its found state.There is a square etched in the inside but cant read the writing inside the square any ideas?

 

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[Wildcat1750]

Could possibly be a wedding band. Someone more knowledgeable may correct me if I'm wrong but I think that back in the 1800s it was uncommon for them to be made of gold. Nice find.

 

[reednc]

I found a very similar copper ring a while back that actually had 10k stamped in it. It turns out that in the past it was not uncommon for scammers to gold plate cheap copper rings and pass them off as the real thing.

 

[EasternShoreMetal]

Def. a ring. Most of the older rings I find, as a matter of fact, jewelry in general from late 1800's - early 1900's are brass and were plated. I even have a brooch with real rubies, but the rest is brass gold plated...

 

[dobber97]

Well it looked like it said 22 something in the square but I didn't believe so it prob actually stands for 22k , thanks for the updates!!!

 

[Ia.FurTrade]

Yep! I havefound 2-3 that were marked but not real!

Iowa Dale

 

[dokc]

You might want to gold test that! I found a ring that was copper color but it was actually 15K = Great Britain did 15K before 1932.

 

[Stormchaser JD]

I have around a half dozen of those that looked just like your first pic. I believe they are rings from 1800's that's was plated. I don't think everyone that got married could afford gold. So brass or copper was used.

 

[danimal03]

wedding band for sure. as others stated some were plated. some were not. I have dug about 3 brass wedding rings with no marks nor plate from strictly 1850's sites with no post period contamination. I have seen them commonly dug in Civil War sites. I have only seen a few actual gold ones. nice find.

 

[park pirate]

It's a ring see if it's magnetized if not could be copper its not gold I never seen gold come from the ground looking like your first pic...

 

[sandsifter]

Could it possibly be a compression fitting for copper pipe. Just a thought.

 

[dirtlooter]

the compression fitting was my first guess as well, still test it, you never know

 

[dobber97]

I was thinking compression olive fitting as well but didnt see where it had been tightened on. Also didnt know about the square with writing in it etched in. So thats where i dropped fitting thoughts, because i have never seen marks on the inside of a compression ring

 

[dobber97]

Bought a jewelers magnifying glass and checked out the square inside the ring. It says 18K in the square, had my brother ,sister n law and random friend look through magnifying glass we all concur it says 18K. So it was an old wedding band that had been plated at some point

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice ring find!