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Title: Nazi ring Post by: DIG IT! (ADIE) on May 13, 2009, 06:06:08 PM This is a ring i found a couple of years ago on parkland at the foot of a old oak tree.It has been in the searcher mag but it is still a bit of a mystery ???The fronnt is made of silver and it has been welded to a bronze ring.I looked up flak 54 which turned out to be a german anti aircraft regiment.I still dont know what the actual silver frontage would have came off.Could it have been off the uniform maybe .What are your thoughts on this matter? :)
Title: Re: Nazi ring Post by: Kev on May 13, 2009, 07:15:56 PM i have seen this ring guys it is a cracker to ................. great find DIG IT m8 ;D
Title: Re: Nazi ring Post by: mickycoin "mick" on May 13, 2009, 09:51:51 PM hi kev a person i know collects that stuff, would you be interested in selling it no harm in asking?? mick
Title: Re: Nazi ring Post by: DIGGA on May 13, 2009, 10:12:35 PM wow adie nice find fella cant be too many of them around brill ;D ;D
Title: Re: Nazi ring Post by: PHIL YNYSBOETH on May 13, 2009, 10:43:07 PM Great find well done !
I love ww2 items Title: Re: Nazi ring Post by: Al.Thepastfinder, ( Alan ) on May 14, 2009, 06:44:56 AM Thats a great find, with the date on it too, this is a Silver badge i found a couple of years ago in a field that the army were camped in during the war.
Title: Re: Nazi ring Post by: PHIL YNYSBOETH on May 14, 2009, 07:46:32 AM wow alan
I think its a tradition for soldiers to pick up trophys War time My Grand dad was in the 8th Army desert Rats he picked up a copy of Mein Kampf (My Struggle) Adolph Hitlers book. Big swastika on the front. Someone had translated a few pages into english it had a tiny spot of blood on one of the pages. My ex wife had a huge collection of army cap badges she had an original cap badge of the 24th foot south wales borders (zulu) worth a few quid now i should imagine I used to collect trench art has anyone got any other WW1 WW2 Items ? Title: Re: Nazi ring Post by: hedgehog on May 14, 2009, 08:02:49 AM They are strange finds, not what you would expect to dig up in England.
I remember being told when I was a boy that troops coming back on boats and ships were warned that if they had any souvenirs (before reaching port) then now was the time to dispose of them. Said that many guns and other souvenirs went over the side into the Atlantic, it wasn't worth the hassle if they were caught. Title: Re: Nazi ring Post by: Al.Thepastfinder, ( Alan ) on May 14, 2009, 08:12:44 AM ohh what a shame , all that stuff dumped into the atlantic hey.
don't know how mine got there, maybe brought back as a souvenir. i wonder if he'd killed the owner, ???? i think the assay mark goes back to about 1943 or 45, arrr iv'e just found it, 1938 nice badge Phil, iv'e found lots of army cap badges, haven't got that one though, good on her Alan Title: Re: Nazi ring Post by: Chef Geoff on May 14, 2009, 09:42:29 AM Hi Adie
Nice find you had there, I don't think it is a uniform or cap badge as the AA units had the picture of a AA gun on there badges, by the size of it and it being silver I would guess at it being an officers cufflink. Chef Title: Re: Nazi ring Post by: Tafflaff (Rob) on May 14, 2009, 09:58:56 AM Thats the ring you showed me at Rooksbridge fella? What a stunner, did they have any prisoner of war camps around that area ? Just a thought.
Title: Re: Nazi ring Post by: jonny on May 14, 2009, 11:29:39 AM Wow certianly is a great and unusual find Well done.
Jonny Title: Re: Nazi ring Post by: DIG IT! (ADIE) on May 14, 2009, 05:13:54 PM Well rob it was found at the foot of the gaer in newport and if i am not mistaken coglewnt phil mentioned something about there being some ww2 activity there i think he said about it on this site.I also found a lead ARP badge in the same vacinity .Its the only wartime relic i have found so i would not like to sell it sorry!And also i think it could be a cufflink chef looking at the back its hollow and could very well be one excellent thought ! ;D
Title: Re: Nazi ring Post by: Al.Thepastfinder, ( Alan ) on May 14, 2009, 05:14:44 PM arrrr it looks cuff link shaped too now you come to mention it, then braised onto an old ring hey
Title: Re: Nazi ring Post by: DIG IT! (ADIE) on May 14, 2009, 05:20:13 PM Yes al i think the chef might of cracked it with that guess probably brought over by british soldier.to think it was worn by a german soldier so long ago blows my mind :o
Title: Re: Nazi ring Post by: Chef Geoff on May 14, 2009, 05:56:56 PM Glad to be of service (just luck)
I'm surprised more WW2 stuff doesn't come up around the Newport and Cwmbran area, as a Cwmbran boy originally I grew up with my mum telling me about the war. Not sure where the white GI's were billeted but the Black ones were at the top of "blackbirds pitch" and the Bengal lancers were camped on the Polo ground at New Inn. Chef Title: Re: Nazi ring Post by: Jonola (Jon) on May 15, 2009, 06:29:14 PM Apparently its not the 54th Flak Regiment. It is the 5th Flak Regiment, 4th Battery.
So I was informed. Don't know if this helps. Title: Re: Nazi ring Post by: ROMAN STEVE on May 19, 2009, 08:31:45 AM nice ring and badge the sutt
has a badge the same on the back of his he has the german number i know there was a german p o w and a load of germans escaped from there it makes you think if they ditched their belongings not to be caught Title: Re: Nazi ring Post by: Al.Thepastfinder, ( Alan ) on May 19, 2009, 01:21:13 PM HI Steve, i Know by where i found mine the army were camped during in the war, maybe one of our boys brought it back over as a souvenir, perhaps he had ripped it off a dead German gentleman
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