WWI related West Front ring?

[borntohunt460]

Cold called a farmhouse built in the 1860s this morning. Man are farmhouses full of trash!!! Not a single old coin. Out of frustration I was digging even slight indications of high tones. I'm still using the stock coil on my at pro but with this amount of junk I doubt the 5x8 would be that much of an improvement

Anywho.... I dug this up and wore it the rest of my hunt. When I got home and googled it there's the exact ring on some other forum. The guy was suggesting that it was somehow related to the Wehrmacht? West Front is written in English though. Anyone have any ideas? It's marked 800 in the inside so this is my second silver ring!

 

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[Old Dude]

Very nice ring. I don't wear jewelry, but would consider that one!

 

[justdon]

Don't have any ideas.But thats an interesting find.

 

[Westfront]

Who called me? Looks like you found my long missed ring!

This ring is probably WWI related as from the design of the Iron Cross. German of course.

 

[texasvarmit]

I noticed the guy on the other website, is in Sweden, who has the west front Maltese cross ring, his is 800 marked. exactly like yours.

 

[rlc1940]

Very nice ring! If I'd found it, I'd be wearing it! Overall, you had a great day! HH

 

[wkrp43]

Nice ring!

 

[Ahab8]

Hope this helps

 

[borntohunt460]

Hope this helps <img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=888933"/>

Wow! Thanks. So that confirms it. The cross on the ring has a "W" in it below a crown just like the article said they were in WWI. Now just to find out if there was a certain American group that wore these. ( probably not German ring because of the English western front)

 

[jewelerguy]

that's pretty cool. what I don't understand though, is if this was something meant for a German soldier or veteran, why are the words in English?

 

[borntohunt460]

that's pretty cool. what I don't understand though, is if this was something meant for a German soldier or veteran, why are the words in English?

Probably definitely a ww1 US veteran. When you google " World War One veteran ring" there's a lot log variations of this on there

 

[Ahab8]

Pretty cool history there and I'd live to know the story behind that ring and dark time in the worlds history

 

[dfx-kevin]

Being a marine, I'd love to here the stories if that ring could talk. Nice find!

 

[Argentium]

Jewelerguy - I just had to laugh , your question is like mine in reverse - I'm wondering if this is for a U.S. veteran, why so prominently display
the "iron cross" ? yes they were fighting the Germans - but West Front identifies the locale - why not put "Old Glory" on there

 

[borntohunt460]

Jewelerguy - I just had to laugh , your question is like mine in reverse - I'm wondering if this is for a U.S. veteran, why so prominently display the "iron cross" ? yes they were fighting the Germans - but West Front identifies the locale - why not put "Old Glory" on there

That's what's so odd. It's like an Iraqi freedom vet wearing a ring that had Some middle eastern extremist group emblem. Of all the rings I have seen by searching I haven't found any with English on it. Normally just "1914" or nothing at all

 

[Kodiak43351]

Love the ring and I would wear it too. I just told my wife about this and tried to show her a pic and she said why would you want to find that you never sell anything you find anyway. Lol she doesn't get it.

 

[jfeeney]

Very cool ring. You had a pretty good weekend man.

 

[tinpan]

Hi Nice ring ,We don,t see much from the German side of the Western Front . Here's a couple of WW1 German Sweet-Heart Post cards

tinpan

 

[jewelerguy]

Jewelerguy - I just had to laugh , your question is like mine in reverse - I'm wondering if this is for a U.S. veteran, why so prominently display
the "iron cross" ? yes they were fighting the Germans - but West Front identifies the locale - why not put "Old Glory" on there

that's what is really odd to me. given the patriotism displayed during the war, it would seem that an American veteran wearing this could be seen by some as displaying sympathy for the Germans

 

[treblehunter]

Very cool and interesting find, another reason I love this hobby so much, great history and great mysteries!
Kodiak, if you cashed it all in she would probably want half.