As Gaspare suggested to start a WW1 / Sweetheart ring topic , here is my ring ( fortunatelly uncleaned ) .

front...

side...

back...

The mark; it's difficult to see what it means...any idea?

I hope that many of your rings may follow

Excellent Benten. Thats one of the nicer ,high quality ones, 2 piece, silver, enamel..

Please members. If you have posted your WW1 / sweetheart rings before please post again as some of the old topics will disappear [or have already] into never never land until the site owner can figure something out to save them. So even if posted recently please post again..
Thanks.

I really don't specialize in these but I've ended up with a few..This one came in a grouping. Weird, its straight zinc! It might have had a clear coat on it long time ago,,gone now..

simple, a little white and black paint and thats it!.

This one was a straight strip of zinc. Put thru a machine with a die,then rolls, and imprints the design, and out comes the ring.
Classic
Gott Mitt' 1914 1916

Gaspare, it's the first zinc WW1 ring I see. Bellissima ! I presume it is a ring from the national metal exchange.
I have posted here a very simple iron ring.

Later on, I 'll post the other WW1 rings .

side... it's really a small size

back....

Here is a shop display for patriotic jewelery. It's not mine.

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Originally posted by benten:
Here is a shop display for patriotic jewelery. It's not mine.

Eamonn, don't be sad
I hope you like this one. It could be a soldiers ring.

That shop display is fantastic!
Custom broachs, pins, rings,,really really nice!

Benten, Wish I could tell you this last ring you post was period but it is not.. Here's mine [the exact ring]. I bought it sometime in the early 1970s.
They were available for a short while here in the states. Sometimes in mens magazines, 'Popular Science', or the motorcycle mags. And,sometimes seen in the 70s 'Head Shops' along with a large variety of skull rings, they were called 'Surfer cross rings'..

Seems they were not available for long and they are pretty scarce, probably a collectable in their own right..

O.K. , posted this once before. Could already be gone by now,,but since this is the new WW1 / Sweetheart ring topic,,again it appears!

side, field cannon piece, oak leafs.

side, Laurel leafs, Rifle, Sword..

come on, I know theres more out there. Dust them off and get'um up..

A couple of well worn ones.

Nice rings gentlemen.

Gaspare thanks for your opinion; I wished I had the shop display and NOT the (surfer cross) ring .

hey G you've broken my hearts than marilyn monroe post some over weekend.. E

sorry more hearts that should have been

Marylin? Nicole Kidman perhaps...

WW1 ring with a gold in the flag. It has a 800 stamp in the band.

side...."1914"

side ..." 1917 "