"THE RING WAS PRODUCED IN AT LEAST 2 PHASES AND USING 3 DIFFERENT ALLOYS, IN PARTICULAR IT IS CLEAR THAT IS A "BILAMINATE", IE OF AN OBJECT COMPOSED OF TWO LAYERS OF DIFFERENT MATERIALS AND JOINED TOGHETHER"
Since that's a fact and I have no reason to doubt it, to me it leads to 2 possible explanations :
1) Gahr worked on 2 layers separately, let's say inner layer to be engraved and outer layer to be impressed ? Later Gahr had to join layers before adding the skull. Wishing to accept this first hypothesis, a question raises :
why the seam joining two layers is never visible (under strong magnification even) , while seam behind skull is almost everytime visible without magnification even ?.
2) Gahr received a blank silver bar already bilaminated (there could be different reasons to explain it) by his silver provider and worked on it. Wishing to accept this second hypothesis, the die casting theory is definitively dead because is virtually impossible to cast a silver alloy by keeping its bilaminated structure??..am I right ?
