UBB.threads Forums Uniform & Accessories The Honor Ring Forum Strange case of the dug postwar, wartime rings

Somehow, something does not match here. There are sand casted rings, which could be made in "field". If you have to make rings in field, you can use sand casting. It requires later lots of hand finishing, but it is duable even in large quantities and it does not require very high skills and lots of equipment for casting and finishing. On other hand we have die struck cartouches (clearly visible on first pics). here we need machine shop for dies, press for die striking etc. If you have machine shop available for die making, and press for die striking, you will never play arround with sand casting. It simply is much more time and labour consuming and gets poorer results. So in my head this does not match - sand casting and die striking in one ring.