Uncle Erichs Honor Ring

[Christian J]

Very cool and historic ring. Thanks for sharing. If it only could speak.

[Jon Fish]

Brilliant story, fantastic ring. Keep it in the family !

[rkdek]

For future reference, I think these 2 postings should be linked:

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...91#post7934091

It seems you have much more items of von dem Bach, congratulations!

Maybe a pic of the complete grouping?

[Byzanti]

Not a criticism- just a question since I'm not seeing the answer- was it a re - engraving altogether? I just wonder how this happened. As Gaspare says- look at "the plunge" in the seam for- (the "dot" on the "i"?)

[Jeff V]

So the anti partisan badge collectors can see that badge I recommend starting a separate thread in the heer war badge subforum.

[sgstandard]

Ring

Concerning my earlier comments.....
In THIS photo, the engraving looks much smoother......
As I said......it's hard to judge by some photos, especially when they're highly magnified.
However........if I were a detective, and someone told me the story about resizing a ring for the health reason as stated, I'd be very skeptical.....
If he was ill for a long time.......then maybe.
What if he recovered, and gained more weight........then what would he do?
File the metal filler down, and ruin the new engraving?
I'm not saying the ring isn't authentic......just that the story makes no sense unless he was ill for a long time.
BTW, from the photo of him, I'm not sure you can see it's a TK-Ring. I'll look again, but it looked like a plain band

[von Braun]

It might be a mysterious story, thats what the family told me.
But the ring is 100% real

[ErichS]

A great ring but thought you were talking about me.

[sgstandard]

Ring

How about THIS theory........the name was ground off at the end of the war,
and years later, when the heat was off, the ground-off area was filled in...... I say "years later" because over that interim, he may actually HAVE have lost weight over those years......but a sick person doesn't throw away all his clothes and buy skinnier ones just because he's sick - Ha-ha.

[N.C. Wyeth]

Please - don't be shy . . .

It might be a mysterious story, thats what the family told me.
But the ring is 100% real

So . . . from this comment - may we take from you that he is not a blood relative? Confusing . . . as you introduced this topic with the term, "Uncle" . . .

Regardless of your personal connection to the recipient - be that it exists or not - still an extremely interesting post. Thanks for taking the time to make all off us acquainted.

[Dennis S]

How about THIS theory........the name was ground off at the end of the war,
and years later, when the heat was off, the ground-off area was filled in...... I say "years later" because over that interim, he may actually HAVE have lost weight over those years......but a sick person doesn't throw away all his clothes and buy skinnier ones just because he's sick - Ha-ha.

Lot of theories and if the ring is his and good great and based on that....

Maybe the ring was made too big in the first place and just modified for a more proper fit.

[Gaspare]

That didn't come out of Gahrs like that!,and they certainly wouldn't modify it. They'd simply issue him a new one...
A guy like that, all he had to do was turn it back in and he'd get another pretty quick..

Odd but very interesting ring! If it is what it appears to be I'd say its one of the best HRs out there!!!

[Gaspare]

just some observations:

The 'engraving' to the sizing space piece looks machine done. [not a problem]

Himmler and numbers pretty neat,,but the Slb v not so much..

The seam - On the 1st pattern rings they usually are very hard to see. On this ring we have some good views. Even from the top etc. Not even a hint of a seam.

The Himmler engraving is across the rings closure/seam.. IF indeed authentic it would prove once and for all the rings were engraved 'in the round' ,skull already on...

[equirhodont]

The Himmler engraving is across the rings closure/seam.. IF indeed authentic it would prove once and for all the rings were engraved 'in the round' ,skull already on...

I´m writting about the engraving process in my book. It was always made on finished ring. See my ring Scharnweber:

[von Braun]

Here is the whole Group :-)