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A "Golden" find.......:cam:
- Thread starter JB(MS)
- Start date
The oldest intact gold class ring I've found was a 1957. I found a piece of one from the 1940's that had the 1, 9 and 4 on it but the last digit was gone, looked like maybe a lawnmower got it. I don't count that one, and don't count just the top of a girls class ring I found that probably also got lawn mowered. I sold the pieces of those two to a local pawn shop that bought scrap gold. The ring in the photo has High School on it. It's a tad bigger than the ring I found today, but it's made from some kind of low conductive metal, R&R calls it crapolium
, that makes it ID in the foil range. Found it about 15 years ago, 6 inches or so down on what was the football field where a high school was located from around 1915 until the late 1950's. Two old guys who were the local historians before they passed away several years ago said when they were in school during the depression in the 1930's that some students bought them as class rings because they couldn't afford silver or gold ones. If that's true I guess it would be the oldest class ring I've found.
, that makes it ID in the foil range. Found it about 15 years ago, 6 inches or so down on what was the football field where a high school was located from around 1915 until the late 1950's. Two old guys who were the local historians before they passed away several years ago said when they were in school during the depression in the 1930's that some students bought them as class rings because they couldn't afford silver or gold ones. If that's true I guess it would be the oldest class ring I've found.
Howdy JB
Like you, I try and return class rings that I have found. My wife and I like to do the research and try to find the owners, it's not hard to do as all of them that I have found had the initials inscribed inside the band.
The gratitude from the owners for the return of the lost ring has been all over the board, some owners were in tears while others have been indifferent,showing little to no gratitude. However the ones that were gratefull overshadowed all the rest.I hope that I can return more of them in the future.BTW my oldest class ring was from the class of 1938, 10k, and that story turned out good.Have a good'n.............Hombre
Like you, I try and return class rings that I have found. My wife and I like to do the research and try to find the owners, it's not hard to do as all of them that I have found had the initials inscribed inside the band.
The gratitude from the owners for the return of the lost ring has been all over the board, some owners were in tears while others have been indifferent,showing little to no gratitude. However the ones that were gratefull overshadowed all the rest.I hope that I can return more of them in the future.BTW my oldest class ring was from the class of 1938, 10k, and that story turned out good.Have a good'n.............Hombre
Know what you mean about different reactions from those we return rings to. The two I've returned that stand out the most was by far the largest class ring I've ever seen and one the owner didn't know was lost. The large ring belonged to a black guy who's mom raised him and his brother by taking in washing, cleaning houses and ironing clothes for people. They were very poor, his mom was a widow with no education and couldn't afford the ring but he said she borrowed the money to buy it and paid it off by working 16 hours a day and making from $3 to $10 a month payments on it. His younger brother lost the ring in the end zone of a local football field, and he said his mom beat the crap out of both of them even though they were pretty much grown. The guy had got a football scholarship to the University of MS, but had graduated and was getting an associate degree in something connected with law enforcement. He was a big man, something like 6' 5" and 275 lbs, but tears ran down his cheeks when I gave the ring to him. Bad part was he let his girlfriend wear it and she lost it on the campus at Old Miss less than two weeks after I returned it and he never got it back.
The other one was a lady who is a nurse at the Tupelo, MS hospital. I found her ring in a playground at a school in Tupelo, called the school she went to in another town to find who it belonged to, then got her number and called her. She said her ring wasn't lost, that it was in her jewelry box, had been for years and was very adamant about it. I asked her to check to make sure, she looked and when she came back to the phone she demanded to know how I got her ring. I had already told her how and where I found it, but she didn't believe I found it with a detector and was highly tee'd off. I told her where I lived and if she wanted it she could come get it. When she came she pulled in my neighbors driveway, called me on her cellphone and wouldn't come in my yard. She was still mad, and kept pushing a $20 bill at me but did tell me her 8 year old daughter had taken the ring to school and lost it. I didn't take her money, I've only taken money once for finding jewelry and only then because the guy wadded up a 20 and threw it in my truck window as I was leaving because I refused $100. The ring I returned that time was the biggest ring I've seen, a huge 18 kt with 1.5 kts of diamonds that he said cost him almost $1,600 in the early 1970's.
Except for the two broken rings, actually only pieces as I mentioned in the above post, I've returned all the class rings I've found but three, counting the one I found today. One I still have belongs to a guy from here who moved to California about 30 years ago. I've called his family here four times about giving it to them or getting his address so I can send it to him, but they keep saying keep it until he comes to visit and he'll come pick it up, but I've had it about 10 years now and evidently he hasn't come to visit yet. The other one is from a school in Louisiana and has two dates on it, 1968 and 1973. I called the school twice, talked to different people both times and was told the ring was from the year the school was built and that all the records were destroyed in a fire and there was little to no chance of finding the owner.
The other one was a lady who is a nurse at the Tupelo, MS hospital. I found her ring in a playground at a school in Tupelo, called the school she went to in another town to find who it belonged to, then got her number and called her. She said her ring wasn't lost, that it was in her jewelry box, had been for years and was very adamant about it. I asked her to check to make sure, she looked and when she came back to the phone she demanded to know how I got her ring. I had already told her how and where I found it, but she didn't believe I found it with a detector and was highly tee'd off. I told her where I lived and if she wanted it she could come get it. When she came she pulled in my neighbors driveway, called me on her cellphone and wouldn't come in my yard. She was still mad, and kept pushing a $20 bill at me but did tell me her 8 year old daughter had taken the ring to school and lost it. I didn't take her money, I've only taken money once for finding jewelry and only then because the guy wadded up a 20 and threw it in my truck window as I was leaving because I refused $100. The ring I returned that time was the biggest ring I've seen, a huge 18 kt with 1.5 kts of diamonds that he said cost him almost $1,600 in the early 1970's.
Except for the two broken rings, actually only pieces as I mentioned in the above post, I've returned all the class rings I've found but three, counting the one I found today. One I still have belongs to a guy from here who moved to California about 30 years ago. I've called his family here four times about giving it to them or getting his address so I can send it to him, but they keep saying keep it until he comes to visit and he'll come pick it up, but I've had it about 10 years now and evidently he hasn't come to visit yet. The other one is from a school in Louisiana and has two dates on it, 1968 and 1973. I called the school twice, talked to different people both times and was told the ring was from the year the school was built and that all the records were destroyed in a fire and there was little to no chance of finding the owner.
Howdy Tabdog
That ring is the best looking class ring I have ever seen. The Indian head design reminds me of an Indian head penny.
I would like to find one as nice as that one some day. Are there any initials inscibed inside the band? If so, and you know the school, it should be easy to find the owner or a relative.Thanks again for sharing..............Hombre
That ring is the best looking class ring I have ever seen. The Indian head design reminds me of an Indian head penny.
I would like to find one as nice as that one some day. Are there any initials inscibed inside the band? If so, and you know the school, it should be easy to find the owner or a relative.Thanks again for sharing..............Hombre
[size=large]I had been hunting around a concrete swimming pool deck.
It is a pool where lots of babes used to hang out all the time in
the summer.
I started getting next to the steel reinforced concrete deck and
under a chain link fence. The Compadre was really paying for it
self.
I got a signal right up against the concrete. I pulled out a pull tab.
Still got a signal and pulled out a penny and still got a signal and
that was the ring. That was common to have multiple targets like
that at that site, but the ring was a knee wabbler. It was about 4
inches deep.
The college that the ring is from was started after WW II because
there were not enough teachers in Arkansas. It was called Ark.
State Teachers College.
Appearantly, the records for those early days are not complete.
All they have are the sports team members and cheer leader's
names.
I have it listed on the missing class ring site.
I don't have the hart to sell it for scrap.
Happy Hunting,
Tabdog[/size]
It is a pool where lots of babes used to hang out all the time in
the summer.
I started getting next to the steel reinforced concrete deck and
under a chain link fence. The Compadre was really paying for it
self.
I got a signal right up against the concrete. I pulled out a pull tab.
Still got a signal and pulled out a penny and still got a signal and
that was the ring. That was common to have multiple targets like
that at that site, but the ring was a knee wabbler. It was about 4
inches deep.
The college that the ring is from was started after WW II because
there were not enough teachers in Arkansas. It was called Ark.
State Teachers College.
Appearantly, the records for those early days are not complete.
All they have are the sports team members and cheer leader's
names.
I have it listed on the missing class ring site.
I don't have the hart to sell it for scrap.
Happy Hunting,
Tabdog[/size]