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Here's My Find From Last Night (PICTURE)

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Critterhunter

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Since a lot of people have been complaining that there are not enough "Look What I Found" types of messages on here, I figured I'd add my contribution to that effort. 12x10 coil. About 25 minutes into it's maiden hunt! Only third target dug! Details in the 12x10 thread to follow in a little bit here. It's silver and looked very old, but after washing it off some and looking under a loop it doesn't look to have as much potential (real stones) as I first thought. It says sterling in the inside and has an "A" with a circle around it. An Avon ring? How it was sitting in the ground, what depth, and the response it gave me (not what you'd expect) will be in the 12x10 thread. It looks better in person and in the pic it looks like one of the smaller stones is missing but I think that's dirt. Last time I looked at it I didn't see any of the little stones missing. Just has a bunch of dirt stuck in it yet. I'm keeping this one short and sweet, so look what I found...

By the way, my camera won't focus this close but a friend I hunt with got his daughter to take a picture and Email me it. Thanks to them. I'm planning to get her to take a few pics of my seated quarter and 3 cent piece to show off, both in mint condition. So hope that helps the effort in showing finds on here.
 
Hmmm...sure looks like one of the stones is gone in that pic. Maybe it fell out last time I handled it, because they were all there last time I looked. I'll let you know. It needs a good cleaning yet too.
 
Nice looking ring there. :thumbup: Looks like the stone might just be in shadow.

HH, Crispy
 
Just looked at the ring and there is no stone missing. Must have been the dirt or the way the light was. Have to run it by my friend who's a gold smith to tell me the stones are fake, then I'll have him clean it. My mom loves the ring so looks like she gets it.
 
Crtiter ,
That's a nice llooking ring .....I hope it's the real deal ..... Keeping our fingers crossed ..... Jim
 
Hey Critter, any time you can make your Mother happy with a ring you found is great. She deserves it for sure. GH, Don
 
Thanks all. It looks so much better in person. The light did some funky things in that pic. It needs a good cleaning and then it's hers. My friend is a gold smith and he'll clean it for me. Another friend checked it with a diamond tester and it tested negative. Still, I've heard those things can do that, so I'd rather have my friend give final opinion on it.
 
NIce One CH, She does look Old but sure looks good from here. Were you in the water, digging dirt, sand? Good Luck on that next outing....joe
 
Nice start for the maiden on the 12x10, looks like it works ok:thumbup:
 
looks like a good one..
hh
john
 
Nice ring. Somebody always has to one up me. :biggrin:

Thanks. See the 12x10 thread for further details, but it was on land. That 12x10 got it standing up on end at 5" or so deep in an area I gridded with my Explorers and several other machines. I had worked this spot with my GT a little while back and got a standing liberty quarter that those other machines missed, by still yet this 12x10 got this ring that my GT had also missed. The only thing that can top a Sovereign is another Sovereign with a different coil. :thumbup:
 
Nice ring critter.............

Ah the 'stone question'...........

Well if it is a Diamond it should have platinum mounts - so if the silver on the ring shows signs of age (and being buried) and the mounts look like they were polished by an army of worms then your onto a winner.

But whatever, its a super ring :clap:
 
Never heard that. Thanks for the tip. I always heard that the older the silver ring the more likely it had real stones in it, where as newer silver doesn't tend to have as much chance. Never heard that tip. Was platnum able to be worked with in that fashion back in the 1800s? I always thought that the abilities to work with platnum wasn't developed until the 1900s. More to the point, most platnum rings I see are plain bands, and I always thought that was due to that metal being much harder to work with. Same deal with titanium or stainless steel rings, ain't it?
 
Critterhunter said:
Was platinum able to be worked with in that fashion back in the 1800s? I always thought that the abilities to work with platnum wasn't developed until the 1900s. More to the point, most platinum rings I see are plain bands, and I always thought that was due to that metal being much harder to work with. Same deal with titanium or stainless steel rings, ain't it?
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I guess it depends if its an 1800's ring or a 1900's. If it is 1800's then silver mounts do not hold stone's very well, over time the stone will loosen - which is why we see so many stone's missing on old ring finds (of course some do hold pretty good). Think of when you find a silver coin, if your digging implement hits it, then its going to show a mark. Platinum is perfect for mounting stone's - secure and strong. It is harder to work with Platinum, but not all are plain bands by any means and a reasonable chunk of diamond is demanding platinum mounts.

So you can assume a stone is real if you have a silver ring (which will tarnish) and yet the mounts (the two/four little arms which hold the stone) look polished because platinum, like gold will not tarnish. I have never heard of a ring having platinum mounts with a junk stone (but I guess there will always be an exception!)

I always heard that the older the silver ring the more likely it had real stones in it, where as newer silver doesn't tend to have as much chance.
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That's very true, it is more likely - up to a point, all people are different - some people just like silver and there are quite a few who are allergic to gold and platinum (brings out rashes!) but the mounts for the stone's will always be the clue - silver ring with platinum mounts = good stone.

But of course not having platinum mounts doesn't confirm anything, but having them does...

Another tip for rings........ specifically on scrap value price..... sell gold in bad economic times (like now!!) but never ever sell platinum unless the economy is booming..........
 
Well I got my good lady an antique (late 1800s) platinum and diamond ring a while ago, so they certainly had the technology. And that ring was entirely platinum, including the rather fiddly looking mount.
 
Tiffany silver diamond rings were always produced with platinum mounts for the stone's from the mid 1880's because they recognized the problems with silver mounts (not strong enough).

Will be interesting to see how old that ring is........... first glance it looks very old............. then I look at the design and think 1920's.......... then look at the stone shape and think 1950's...or 60's :shrug:. But on all glance's it looks nice :)
 
Thanks. Good info. I'll pass the platinum mount tip onto the guys I hunt with. Never have heard that.

Luckily I've got a metal detecting friend who is a gold smith, so I take any suspect stuff to him to confirm if a stone is real or not, and he's also able to try to wholesale rings for me to the jewelers he works for. I'll never forget the day we were hunting together in an old park. I was hunting the top of a grass hill were erosion had exposed bottom of a gold ring. Didn't even have to detect it! Before I pulled it out of the ground I called him over to see it happen. Flipped it over and this huge diamond was looking at us on a very big/fat gold ring. He said don't get your hopes up, that stone is too big, and for some reason it doesn't look right. Well, I also thought it wasn't even a real gold ring because it looked like the gold was pealing at the bottom. Turns out that was something somebody had wrapped around the ring to tighten it up on their finger, because I was shocked back at his shop when he said "Holy s*%t! The diamond is testing real!" Anyway, long story short I got I think $3900 wholesale for the stone, $80 for the gold, and the jeweler he sold the stone to sold that retail for $10,000. It was a high quality one and I think 2 carrots, but it might have been bigger. I just remember when we had the old miner's cut re-cut to a modern style so that it would sell faster it ended up being either 1.9 or 2.9 carrots, having lost just a bit for the modern style cut it needed. More than likely it was 1.9, because as little as I know about diamonds 2.9 seems a little too big...But then again it was one huge stone! Never will I forget that day.
 
Crtter .
I was just re reading this thread ....Nobody "one upped " you ......You found a ring that your mother loves !!......There can be nothing that can "one up " that !!!..... Jim
 
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