Ring Stolen

[Anonymous]

I found a very nice sterling silver ring about a month ago. It was missing the top piece and I went back to the exact spot a week later and after an extensive search of sifting through the dirt with my probe, I found the top piece which helped identify the ring. It is a New York State Guard ring. It also had E Pluribus Unum on the ring. It was a unique find since I dug it in 2 parts at 2 separate times.
Well the other night I attended my Metal Detector club meeting and decided to enter it into the find of the month silver jewelry category. I placed it on the finds table and when it came time for the voting on the silver jewelry category, my ring was missing. Apparently somebody thought it would like nicer in their collection than in mine, so they swiped it. <img src="/metal/html/cry.gif" border=0 width=40 height=15 alt=":cry">
I'm writing this so that people reading this forum can see the ring that was stolen, so that this lowlife can never go bragging about what he had found. It can sit in his collection, but he will never be able to claim true ownership of it. HH Conrad

 

[Anonymous]

That was a good find. Too bad some low life took it <img src="/metal/html/frown.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt="">.
JB

 

[Anonymous]

My wife just brought in the mail and there was this envelope. With no return address it had "Don't Fold Pictures". I opened it up and in a smaller envelope there was the ring. <img src="/metal/html/biggrin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=""> God Bless! HH Conrad.

 

[Anonymous]

and the person who returned it will sleep much better...and did I say that is one nice ring...WTG!!!

 

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[Anonymous]

Congratulations on getting the ring back. I found a silver ring with similar design at Camp Cody, NM, a WW1 army base. That base was staffed with 4 national guard units. I found some items with state guard designations.
The ring I found had the same eagle design on the shoulders of the ring and the top design was missing just like yours. I did manage to get a tiny signal on the design and get it out of the sand. It was the medical corp design, a staff with two snakes twined around it, and I had it remounted on the ring.
Its possible that your ring dates back to the same WW1 era.