you know it was also claimed that with a press/die you couldn't get complex angles or difficult designs.. That isn't true. while most die cutters made the simplest die so things would be easy there were complex ones . Rings that did take more that one pressing. But never the less these complicated designs were tough, with tough angles that would make you wonder how they were made.. This bothered Tony. He had written that on the 2nd pattern especially the curved band would be too difficult to have it come out right,,,that is couldn't be pressed, had to be a casting.. And he could be right,,maybe it was some kind of unorthodox casting,,but there were dies that did the same..
This die from 1927 would make a way more complicated design than the HR. Yet was available for years before and afterward. Just wasn't done much because simple was better. Less waste, unskilled labor etc. etc. but the technology was there certainly..
