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hi, some pics of my new dak ring, hope you enjoy. mike

From this pics it looks like nice made typical northern africa work.
But i don´t see a sure connection to the DAK

the ring is marked on the underside of the band with a maker mark and 800 and is of italian
manufacture. my camera will not allow me to take close up shots of the marks

Not all had swastikas or DAK/palmtree or even a date.. This looks like an typical Italian made period piece. The Italians for sure didn't make them after the war..

That ring looks like it is multi piece, front emblems soldered on. IF so there should be a tiny hole at top on front or possibly bottom [?]



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Thanks for this informations G.!
I learn all day!

thanks gaspare for your valued imput. the ring is multi piece construction, the strange thing is
there apears to be an inner band atached to the ring? with a tiny mark which i cannot make
out, also 3 tiny blow holes? that have been filled at the back of the face. hope you can understand
what i,m trying to say. best regards mike

thats fine b,, The holes [most of time left open] are gas relief holes.. Keeps the build up of 'gases' so the emblems don't pop off while soldering..

IF you can/possible try and post a shot of the mark..

hi, hope these are ok,i have had the arabic translated
one side as the initials K M the other has D A K

mark

Mark,, those photos are killing me! ,,takes a little set up time but in the future maybe try thru a large magnifying glass..

D,A, and a K,,,Hhmmm,, what can DAK mean

I think that is the first time we've had a translation from [what we've thought] Arabic here.. Well, it confirms that is IS Arabic at least!

As far as that mark,,check at bottom of this page of Italian marks,,could it be one of these?

http://www.925-1000.com/Fitalian_marks_01.html



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i have checked the site. the mark is 84 fasces fi, sorry about the poor photos. mike

Hi bonny1, that is a very nice and well marked ring you have. I recognize many resemblance of your ring with a ring I showed here a while ago.
It is a pitty the last pictures are very blurry...... maybe the camera botton is not on the tulp/flower symbol for macro?

"Fi" on your mark could stand for the Italian city Firenze; 84 for the maker(or dealer?).

Gaspare, my ring is very light, so I think it’s made hollow.
Note the little holes on the front backside for letting out the heated air of the soldering.

Years ago, I was young and unexperient , I was soldering brass with silver solder....assembling a hollow half-bulb shape on a flat surface....because I didn’t know that the heated air couldn’t away, the flat part got also a bulb shape because of the very high air pressure inside... The flat brass was convex deformed.
The melted silver solder in the seam is very strong and keeps the brass parts hermetic closed together.
I’ll never forget this lesson.


Here some pictures of the ring