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« on: September 14, 2011, 05:49:39 pm »
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I have to post this ring find here because I can't find anyhting similar online. The design on this silver ring is rather odd for it doesn't resemble anything I could relate it with. It looks psychedelic, but is not quite the ususal swirling design. Anyone knows?

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« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2011, 05:54:10 pm »
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Looks like it could be home-made (or at least commune made).   What is the center made of?  Plastic, laquered wood, or something else?   (just looking at it, it looks like stained wood to me).

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Quote:Posted by BitburgAggie_7377
Looks like it could be home-made (or at least commune made).   What is the center made of?  Plastic, laquered wood, or something else?   (just looking at it, it looks like stained wood to me).

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Cool! Had not noticed that! It seems like acrylic on wood, but it is hard to tell. The ring could've been handmade because it doesn't look professionally made for commercial purposes. But it could also be some type of artcraft ring designed with no particular meaning. It was not buried, my e-trac found it on the surface (just lost it seemed)

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« Reply #3 on: September 14, 2011, 09:32:00 pm »
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The front has minor scratches and the depth of the image along with the slimness leads me to believe that the design is painted on the back of a glass button not plastic.  The band has .925 stamped in it, that would be required if it was for commercial sale.  I reckon it was made by a tribal silversmith on a southwest reservation.

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« Reply #4 on: September 14, 2011, 09:54:36 pm »
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Well here are 2 ideals
1 Its a Mexican import. Because of the very poor workmanship its not from Tesco but one of the 100's of small silver shops along the border that produce for the tourist trade.
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2 Its a student piece from a collage are high school with lapidary/ jewelry department.  This is what I am leaning to because. The shank is soldered in one place on the base that's how most students learn to solder plus as I said before its a very primitive solder job.

As for the stone?Huh? heat up a pin and see if it will melt it. Looks plastic to me but hard to tell from a pic.

Nice find and no digging now that cool.

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« Reply #5 on: September 14, 2011, 10:01:12 pm »
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The front has minor scratches and the depth of the image along with the slimness leads me to believe that the design is painted on the back of a glass button not plastic.  The band has .925 stamped in it, that would be required if it was for commercial sale.  I reckon it was made by a tribal silversmith on a southwest reservation.

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     That's possible, but to be honest I've never seen that type of ring or that relatively poor of a ring come from any of the reservations in Arizona or New Mexico and I've been around them all my life.  
     Glass button or acrylic protected wood are definite possibilities.   As is "handcrafting" by the artisans of the 60's and 70's who frequently made such things to raise money (often trying to pass them or the made in china knockoffs of Native American jewelry as genuine American Indian silversmithing).
     And I agree with Seldom that if it isn't from a "hippie" artisan or a student project, it is more likely to be a Mexican import than a product of any of the Southwest US tribes.

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« Reply #6 on: September 14, 2011, 10:14:34 pm »
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it's a "kit" ring for sure. But its an old one, they dont make kits rings in 925 silver anymore. I'm going to say it was made by the owner at home, or by a loved one like a child's gift to mom or dad type thing. I bet the girlscouts made those in the 60's

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« Reply #7 on: September 15, 2011, 05:04:43 am »
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The stone may be agate but thats just a guess . Type agate eye on google images you will see several in different colors.

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Taz42o made me think that the stone could be an eye agate. I loooked it up on both google and yahoo, and there are stones similar to the one in the pic. But again, it's just another guess. I concur that the ring is probably the job of an amateur and being made from a ring making kit. I took closer pics using my macro lens and also looked it up using my 10X jewelry loupe. Now it looks more like mineral rings from a rock. Be my guest  Wink

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Now it looks more like mineral rings from a rock. Be my guest

Under that magnification, I'd go more with Gramps' glass button or at least a piece of glass that has been back painted (i.e. the paint is applied to the underside of a glass cabrachon).... But I'd still go with amatuer and/or kit piece.

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