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This is a recent pickup of mine from Europe, a nice enamelled unit marked ring for the Torpedo Boat(destroyer) S32 of the Imperial German Navy. She was present at the Battle of Jutland. Oak leaf side panels, stamped 900 on the shank. 1914-1915 on the top of the cartouche. She was launched in 1914, so probably made for one of her original crew. A nice rare Great War example.

nice looking ring! Imagine it in mint condition!! [like it like that though!]
Sometimes hard to believe these rings are 100 years old and better!

Thanks, G! It would be spectacular in mint condition, although I agree, I like that this has a salty "been there" look. The seaman who owned it surely wore it with pride for many years. I haven't had many rings from the Great War, and picked it up on a whim, but it's a keeper for sure.

Anyone else have any cool WW1 rings to share? I'd love to see more.

Great ring, never saw these tricolor rings unit marked. Was it expensive?

Thanks Hapur! I got it for a good price, but one very similar to it just sold for around $200.on American Ebay. I've been checking these out for a while, the unit marked ones seem difficult to find.

Got quite similar :-)

Nice ring Gottlieb! It looks pretty much identical to mine, but yours is in much better shape.

Maybe better condition but Your with better inscription :-)

I think like WW2 rings you could get what ever you'd want,,,IF you have the money.. Maybe a rich aristocratic officer could have ordered them for his men,,or the soldiers themselves kicked in and would make an order..

That's a great advertisement G! Do you have others for WW1 rings?

I have a couple,,nothing stunning.. Somewhere here we have a topic on WW1 rings and their adverts.. IF anyone finds it please feel free to add to this topic........

Do I understand ad correct that there were these pattern rings made in gold also? if so never saw one in gold.

I think they were although I haven't seen any either.

Have seen some with gold highlights like all silver ring with gold swas,,or silver ring with gold Turnerverbund [spelled incorrectly]sports emblem.

another advert,,same rings...

I've seen an advert for these 2 rings and in gold.
But, only thing that was gold was the swastikas..

anyone with gold rings? or partial like these 2?

For Andy .........

Here are 4 nice WW1German enamel rings
Hope everyone enjoy's these 4 WW 1 rings

Andy 1 and 2 must be rare- Belgium and what appears to be a cadeuceus- don't know DHV but it must be medical in some way? Cool rings all!

thanks Vern.. Andy those are very nice.. Here's an ad for one of them.. You used to have more,,you sold some really good ones!

hi mike
yes all four are intresting rings i know when gaspare seen them last year he explained to me what they represent but i dont remember what he said many moons has past i have had them for sale for over a year now i rarely put them out at the max or sos show as i all ways forget . i will try and have them all out at these both shows this years max and 2017 sos shows along with all my outher skull rings and outher unit rings stop by at the show if you can . thanks again andy militarynut

hi gaspare
wow you have the original paper advertiseing for the turkish enameled ring with all the colors . around it the outher ring with d h v didnt you say that was a german veterans org. with the medical staff on it thats a very large size ring i believe size 11 i still have a few more ww1 german rings left yes a few was sold last year thanks again for your help best andy militarynut

don't remember exactly what the DHV was,,something medical, maybe pharmacy[?].. I do know there is a 3rd reich version with a swastika on it that's rare as anything!!!

The other ring is the allies during WW1,,Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Turkey..

Deutschnationaler Handlungsgehilfen Verband

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschnationaler_Handlungsgehilfen-Verband

hi odel
morgen to you wow that was fast d h v all in german about this org. i wish i could read it can you help us out here some what in english sorry i only know a few bad words in german appreciate any help here danka best andy militarynut

Here is some in english:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_National_Association_of_Commercial_Employees

Thanks Piotr!

hi guys
thanks gottlieb for the english version of this orgnazation holly molly german nationalist anti semitic union man oh man are we learning something here very intresting thanks again odel und gottlieb god bless have a great day andy militarynut

Unionized commercial workers + cadeuceus = unionized healthcare worker( nazi nurse's ring?) as it appears to be a females ring? What u think, possible?

Hi browsing the web I have found this one.

Oh wow- Warsaw! Piotr, that ring is in great shape! (Can't be common either, is it?)

Unfortunetly this one is not mine :-( but I would like to own it !!!

rather special, this... it is genuine? Just wondering.

It looks right to me, Mark- but then I don't know too much about these rings.... from what we see, that looks like authentic craftsmanship... This being said- loads of fake ones out there!