A skull and bones ring?

**DanielAntic** · 03-27-2022, 11:34 AM

Hello, and again I'm in search of a ring for the collection. A friend offers such a ring, of a well-known design. in

I'm not sure of its authenticity. There is a photo allegedly before the cleaning, but I have some doubts that the same ring is depicted in both photos.

Unfortunately, we managed to get photos of not the best quality. I will be grateful for your help.

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 03-27-2022 11:34 AM

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**Mahler** · 03-27-2022, 10:14 PM

Do you have any better picture on the back / inside of the skull?

**rbminis** · 03-27-2022, 10:51 PM

IMO, the first two photos are not the same ring.
Compare the right eye sockets.
Ralph.

**SpitfireVb** · 03-28-2022, 07:37 AM

I assume that the first photo is of a putative ‘ground-dug’ ring. I don’t trust anything claimed to be dug from the ground. You have no idea: 1. where it was ‘discovered’; 2. when it got into the ground; 3. how it got there. Based on this, and even if the shiny ring is the same as the ‘dug’ one (which I doubt), I wouldn’t trust it. If these are two different rings, I wouldn’t trust the seller. Either way, I think it’s probably a modern cast reproduction of a known pattern.

**Rick W** · 03-28-2022, 09:28 AM

There is a sucker born every minute they say.

**DanielAntic** · 03-28-2022, 01:54 PM

I asked him to take a better photo

**DanielAntic** · 03-28-2022, 01:58 PM

I thought of mirroring the photo, now they are similar

**DanielAntic** · 03-28-2022, 02:03 PM

I have mirrored the photo now, now the rings are more similar. Previous post. But that doesn't make it original yet (

**Mahler** · 03-29-2022, 01:41 AM

I must agree with Ralph on this one. The ring that's dugged and the cleaned one doesn't look identical. Also I don't like the back of it. I wouldn't buy it. There's better ones out there!

The thing with some people selling "dugged" rings is so that the look of the ring gets a little "slack" from the inspection, like "Oh it's a bit rough, but it was dugged". Pretty common to say a copy was ground dugged and use it as an excuse for it if any signs of being casted / copy. Note to self, unless you wasn't the person who found it in the ground, be very suspicious and take everything with a pinch of salt, it will save you your money.