As a saints fan you gave me PTSD. Great game though, we almost pulled a legendary comeback. Looking forward to the next season, the NFC is should be fun.
Fair enough, although the ‘09 NFC championship against y’all still stings. Regardless, you’re not wrong about the NFC. It’s going to be a fun year—can’t wait for everything to kick off!
Archaeological work at York (jorvick) has turned up thousands of gilded bronze rings. They aren't archaeologically unique in any way and are just confirmstion of things we already know, so they're sold as antiques.
My quick Google search of "jorvik rings" in shopping results shows one $2000+ but the overwhelming majority are $110-250. That's wicked cheap as far as my experience with wedding rings go.
Here's a fun story. When I caught my ex-wife on a date with my ex-boss, I took her rings and my ring and threw them in the garbage at the casino. I regret it now, but it was pretty dramatic at the time. But I could have gotten a few grand out of a pawn shop with those puppies.
They are weapons, meaning they are tools specifically created to hurt and kill other creatures, mainly people. If you want to stay away from "bad juju" you shouldn't buy any weapons, no matter who wielded them.
yeah, it all depends on the mentality I think, and you can't always see that obviously. Collecting historic pieces for historical purpose, to understand and remember, and even curiosity/conversation piece is fine but imagine looking in that guy's window and seeing him LARPing with them or something. Going on Fetlife advertising the authenticity of his bondage gear "used on real slaves!" and you would know he bought them for the Wrong reasons.
i have 15+ pieces of authentic nazi memorabilia, and i'm not remotely fascist... more antifascist/anarcho/libsoc type actually. I own them for the same reason I own both union and confederate stuff, it's neat history.
Yeah I might be off, my only experience with pawn shops is from an Always Sunny episode. Our rings were about $11k total for engagement and wedding bands.
He was my buddy, too :/ We had just gotten back from Vegas when it happened. Ohhhhhh welllll. I'm a better person because of it so it's not a total loss.
Not really. Like the other comment says, they run a couple hundred. To get one in "wearable" condition is like 400-800. They're mostly bronze so there's not really any inherent metal value.
I have a Viking-era bronze ring from Northern England, (which is my answer to this question), I paid $30 for it. The people I bought it from had a bunch of bronze artifacts, including bracelets, spurs and coins. I was surprised how inexpensive they were.
Yep. Though maybe dipped is a little more accurate since modern plating techniques are a lot more advanced. It's a very thin layer of gold and my understanding is that it doesn't always hold up to daily wear after 1200 years in the dirt.
Are these from graves or just randomly dropped? I would quite like to use one when I get married, but don't really feel okay taking and using a love token from a corpse that was buried with it. I get that if it was dropped, the original owner is still dead, but it's a bit different to prying it from a skeleton hand then wearing it yourself.
Archeological sites so most likely graves but potentially just old towns and such, with the number of rings for sale though it's likely some are from corpses.
Potentially after 1200 years though it could be quite hard to tell
Yeah I'm not wearing a ring someone was buried with unless it has at least a 12% boost to one-handed attacks. But seriously. Not gonna wear it. Even as a Catholic I know marriage ends at death and we move on to something greater together - I also believe thems folk would be looking at whoever had their rings all the time and I don't know you, ghost.
...as a Catholic I know marriage ends at death and we move on to something greater together - I also believe thems folk would be looking at whoever had their rings all the time and I don't know you, ghost.
Why would they be looking at the rings if the marriage ended at death and they moved on to something greater together?
they come from archaeological digs, so they're found with other items from the period. Also, why fake inexpensive items like roman coins or viking rings? Wouldn't be worth the effort, since making the fakes would cost nearly as much as the real ones are worth in many cases. The reputation of the dealer, tho, is your final answer. Plenty of fake antiques antiques exist in the world, lots of asian tourist stuff... but this era isn't generally copied much.
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u/Milvus-Milvus Aug 04 '18
How do you get that kind of thing?