Original deaths head ring

**Jan** · 09-01-2010, 05:37 PM

Not so uncommon but I thought I´d share a closeup were you can see the wear and tear on the silver. This ring probably held some kind of glass "gems" in its eyes.

Cheers Jan

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 09-01-2010 05:37 PM

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**Jan** · 09-01-2010, 05:45 PM

Sorry my keyboard is lagging .... "deaths head"...

**swiss76** · 09-01-2010, 05:45 PM

"Death head"(quite funny you have in Finish the same expression as in German) is actually a "Skull".

Edit: I just googled - and I am wrong. Obviously in this context "death's head" seems to be correct.

mea culpa.

**Jan** · 09-01-2010, 05:48 PM

by swiss76

"Death head"(quite funny you have in Finish the same expression as in German) is actually a "Skull".

In Finnish its called "pääkallo" directly translated its "head skull".

Rgds Jan

**swiss76** · 09-01-2010, 05:57 PM

see edit.

Totenkopf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"death's head" in wiki is wrong if you go nitpicking, it's "dead's[pl.] head[sing.]"

Cheers.

**Jan** · 09-01-2010, 06:37 PM

maybe has to do with the etymology of kal-lo to kal-ma meanig dead body.. So the kal-lo "skull" just makes it clear what part of the dead is in question