I can’t see any sense in the way this ring was made. (Country of origin unknown; stamped 900.) I’ve seen hinged rings here and there but the reason for the hinge is always clear. That isn’t the case here.
The hinges don’t make it any easier to put the ring on my finger or get it off. There isn’t another design on the other side of the visible art, so it isn’t a two-sided flip ring.
I don’t imagine the folks here are specialists in peculiar jewelry, but you are an intelligent bunch, so I would appreciate anyone sharing their thoughts on hinges, should they have some.
It’s sort of both of those things and designed so you can fix the face plate prongs between the shank forks and squeeze them together with pair of pliers just enough to hold it on your finger or somebody else’s if you’re a gal giving it to your guy.
Makes getting it over the knuckle a non-problem.
What else it might be useful for I suppose you can figure out.
The .900 mark is kind of an ID thing rather than an exact measure of silver content. I used to supply someone who made these, or something awful like them, in Britannia Beach.
And since on this ring the forks are closed this was either taken off the finger by someone we could call an undertaker or else it’s yet to be assigned.
Thanks for the interesting ideas. I failed to initially take into consideration the fact that my streamlined knuckles don’t reflect the reality of everyone else on earth.
Yes, I thought it might be a wax seal, so I tried it out with the sealing wax I’ve used in the past. Didn’t work out; the wax attached itself to the ring in a most tenacious manner due to the way the goat image is constructed. I will need to do some surgery in order to get the wax out of the depression:
It should work. Try letting the wax cool for about 30sec after pouring on to the material you wish to seal.
I discovered with a figure ring seal taking the ring off or putting it on an ice cube before using worked too
However, the deeper the inclusion into the face plate the more likely it is to stick. You will note on ring seals they are all fairly shallow. The solution is very simple but may not appeal to you as ring owner.
I did let the wax cool a little bit, but I think I waited much less than 30 seconds. The ice cube sounds like a good idea. In the past, with other stamping efforts, I put a little oil on the stamp before pressing it on, and that always worked.
It’s been years since I did any wax-sealing and my technique got rusty.
