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Here are a few of my campaign rings. Any questions or comments welcomed!

Classic CBI theater ring above. Allied Tunis 1943 with 3 flags.

Tripoli with gilded top

Rome liberation ring in 800 silver with colisseum and June 5 1944 date.

New Guinea 1944 shield in 925 silver

Manila Philippines 1945 Flag rings

Massive Tunisian camel and scrollwork ring

Tripoli made Afrika Korps ring with gilded top.

Italian made DAK ring in 800 silver hallmarked to Eduardo Algerini of Milan.

Some real great stuff!

Thanks Odal, that's only a small portion of my collection. I'll post some more pics tomorrow.

Love the camels, man...hoping for some Tarawa pics (all sides please)

hi dak41
wow you showed us some real super looking campaign rings from your collection thank you i have a large collection of campaign rings in my pennsylvania home i should be back from the florida sand pile mid may and maybe i can have my wife picture my collection for you guys there is a few i cherish more then outhers like the u.s. ww 1 fighting 69th irish div. ring and collor disk i never seen another one . now rings from island of tarawa i have never seen one of them have you. only thing from island of tarawa was last year at a coffe shop here in florida i met a living ledgend u.s.m.c. survivor of tarawa he was 19 years old when he hit the tarawa beach he was sitting with another u.s.n. ledgend from the uss yorktown when i seen those hats with those words i walked over imediatly and thanked them for thier service to our great country and i said i am so proud and honored to meet you guys . the marine told me his story how he made it up on the beach it wasnt a good story of what he told me so many of our marines died takeing that sand box then i said sir you were on the uss yorktown his words was just a minute sunny i was on the second uss yorktown when the japanese seen us they pooped in thier pants because they knew they sunk the first uss yorktown and the goast was comeing back again to dust thier butts off ok mike thats all i know about island tarawa best andy militarynut

Hi Andy! My stepfather is a big fan of the Irish Brigade being Irish and a civil war buff. I will post pics of the Tarawa ring as well as some other Pacific campaign rarities tonight. Glad you liked my pics so far!

WOW, what a nice collection! Hope I can get a shot in before I go tomorrow... Hey come on guys,,you all have at least a couple of these!! post them!

Thanks Gaspare! I will put some more on tonight, but would love to see other rings too!

Hope You do not mind if I will have some input here. Most of this rings I have posted here before but never all in one place.

few more...

Fantastic rings gottlieb! I really like the Krim rings, and of course all DAK rings!

Oh yeah these are beauties, interesting Finland too...dak41 let's give Gaspare a nice going away present with some pics of that Tarawa ring. One square mile of hell!

Ok round two! 1945-46 Berlin occupation ring in 800 silver

CBI theater Nationalist Chinese ring

Silver Tunis ring with Arabic scrollwork

1943 Oran Africa ring in silver with Atlas mountains motif

1945 Yokohama Japan occupation ring in 800 silver

1944 Iran ring with Persian Gulf Command insignia

1943 Iran ring with US Merchant Marine insignia

1942 Iraq ring with mosque

A Rare 38th "Cyclone" division Philippines made ring with "Avengers of Bataan" motto

An ultra rare 32nd "Red Arrow" division ring engraved to the 126 Infantry Regiment who marched the Kapa Kapa trail through immense adversity

Ultra rare New Guinea shield type ring engraved to the battle of Noemfoor Island July 2nd 1944

Ultra rare New Guinea ring engraved to the battle of Nadzab airfield and the landing at Lae September 5th 1943. The airfield was taken by the 503rd PIR.

Final pic tonight. Ultra rare 1943-44 Tarawa aircraft aluminum hand tooled ring with the famous newspaper headline " One Square Mile of Hell" engraved around the four sides.

Homina homina homina....dak, you know how big of a fan I am...WOW rings WOW! G, I hope you get to see these b4 u go, dak...thanks so much for sharing these rare and beautiful rings, noemfoor, lae, and that Tarawa ring has to be seen to be believed. It looks like the war ring that Floyd mayweather would have commissioned. It is a small TABLE! So awesome! Thanks again man!
God bless
Mike

Glad you enjoyed and I hope everyone else does too!would love to see more if anyone wants to post!

Although i am a collector of the mass produced german rings, i like to see this handworks!
Wow...some really nice rings!
Much thanks for sharing here with us!

hi dak1941
tarawa ring nice ring didnt know they made one the one square mile on it volcanic island it was thanks again for showing your beautifull historic rings god bless andy militarynut

Here's my latest acquisition...Manila 45 and a Naples 44. Iran 44 is on the way...
Mike

yeah what a nice topic to come back to!

Some really nice examples. [Byz,,some great work on the letters for Manila!]

Keep it going guys,,,,any Tokyo, 'Poland', Minsk?
Also isn't it weird there are plenty 'Krim' rings but never seen Kuban, Narvik, etc. rings?

Byz, thats a beauty of a Manila ring man! Love the artwork! Gaspare, I'll post a few more tonight.

My Iran 44 came today. Interesting front piece artwork.

Byz, thats definitely a keeper you got there! Nice ring!

I finally got somebtime so here is round three that I'd promised. Hope you like!

Above is 1943 Oran Africa with mercury dime head. Below is Nationalist Chinese 1945 ring with US 22nd Bomb Squadron insignia

German occupation 830 silver U.S. 6th armored division ring. They fought for Bastogne during the battle of the bulge.

Palermo Sicily 1943-44

Krim ring in aluminium

Krim ring in silver

Italian DAK ring

DAK41 , very nice collection you have going on!!

Thanks Gaspare! Hope you guys enjoyed them. I'll post some more soon!

Of course we enjoy this nice examples

Gorgeous rings! More tr needed in collection!

I don't really collect them,,but I have some.. My Uncles bought/traded for some when they were in Italy fighting and France on leave..

This one is one of my Uncles.. I thought it was a professionally made ring just hand cut on the cartouche,,but no..
He told me he traded a couple German medals for this [even came in a box!] It is all custom made,,out of steel and a bit of chrome plating [which he said came off in 2 weeks!]...
Paris 1945

and this one,,well I actually bought this one!

I used to have a large collection of Wolchowstocks [25]. Here is an old article I wrote a few years ago:

http://www.thirdreicharts.com/engine/inspect.asp?Item=1040&Filter=Gallery

Now I still have 6 of my favorites,,,anyway. So I got this ring,,low grade silver,,put together firmly/nicely..

1941 Wolchow 1943

Nice rings g, guys check the article link... Great sign picture/article title....

Nice rings Gaspare! I always like when there is a story attached, and if its family it makes it even better. Here's my 1945 Paris of chromed brass. I have seen another one just like your pattern as well as a couple other designs.

D41,,,Wow, very similar!! Yours is nice,,looks like most of plating still on....

OK, here's 2 more from my Uncles collection. My family is Sicilian so you know he had to get a couple! I think the Palermo ring he bought [or traded] and had to come back a few days later to pick it up...

Both brass with a light chrome [?] plate on them:

Some rings were already made up,,or you could get whatever you wanted on them, with a little time.. Most had the city or country,,some had dates, military unit names put on etc.

Nice heavy rings man, good keepers!

Round 4 mixed bag of tricks: 1945 Philippines in silver

1945 Philippines in silver with gilt shooting star

Trench art 1st division "Big Red One"

5th army Monte Cassino 1944 ring

1943 Krim ring in silver

Sweet krim ring. Monte cassino a little blurry. Big red 1! That's pretty cool.