Hello, imho, concerning the wear seen on many rings we do forget HOW and under which CONDITIONS these rings have been worn! Even when SSleaders most of them had to jump into mud, climb tanks or trucks, did hold rifles and pistols and much much more. Only a small percentage have been these paper pushers some collectors like to mention. So an extensive contact with steel might be expected which might cause a lot of the wearing traces and the worn down condition. I dare to doubt that any of the modern rings do have nearly the same to suffer what most TKRs had to. Regards,
wotan, gd.c-b#105
"Never look for sqare eggs" as a late owner of an original FHH-dagger used to say.
