SS Ehrenring - Real or Fake?

[Vincentd231]

Hello!

Recently I was at my grandmothers house and she gave me something quite odd. My grandmother is from Hungary and that's where her family and relatives lived their lives. She told me a story about how my great grandmother found this ring at her passed away aunts house, when she whent through her things sometime in the 90s. And now she wanted me to have it. The aunt did not have a spouse or children so how it ended up with her is for me a mystery. Now here is my question:

Is this ring real or some kind of copy?

Thank you for your help.

[rbminis]

Unfortunately, I believe this is a cast copy.
The quality is really poor. You can compare with originals in these threads.
SS Ehrenring coming up at work
SS Ehrenring x 2
Wait for other opinions.
Ralph.

[SpitfireVb]

I agree with Ralph. It’s a poor-quality cast copy. It should be a two-piece ring with a seam between the skull and the shank clearly visible. This thing is cast as a single piece.

[Evgeniy]

2 rbminis
original ring was too made by cast methode )))
die cast

but this is in shots ugly poor copy

[Vincentd231]

Thank you for your answers.
How unfortunate. At least I did not spend any money on it!
However, I have a follow-up question. When did these fakes start to be made? Because I'm quite certain that the ring is at least 40 years old, probably more.

[Larry C]

Mid to late 20th century copy.

[SpitfireVb]

Thank you for your answers.
How unfortunate. At least I did not spend any money on it!
However, I have a follow-up question. When did these fakes start to be made? Because I'm quite certain that the ring is at least 40 years old, probably more.

Fake Third Reich stuff, including rings, has been around for a lot longer than 40 years. I think there was a peak of production, largely in Eastern Europe, in the seventies but the fakers were probably at work before then, when it became clear that anything 'Nazi' appealed to a lot of collectors, especially anything 'SS'.
The vast bulk of what we see nowadays here and on other ring fora is either poor copies, sometimes very good (dangerously good) copies, and complete fantasy rings that are not based on any pattern that existed in the Third Reich. There are even copies of fantasy rings because the fakers don‘t even know that they're fantasy rings!