:usaflag: Another Class Ring Returned!! :detecting:

[Cupajo]

My daughter and family came for Sunday Dinner a couple of days ago and I brought out my small stash of rings for everyone to look at.

One of the rings was a tarnished senior ring two years old from a school twenty or so miles away. It was of some strange alloy that salt water tarnished quickly and I didn't really think the owner would much care if she got it back or not.

My youngest daughter said she wanted to locate the owner and return it if possible. This AM she called to let me know she had found the owner and was thrilled at having done so. I just wanted to publicly state how proud I am of her taking the time as I should have done to make a stranger happy.

The school and owner sent along their thanks via my girl for my efforts in recovering the ring.

Good luck and happy hunting friends,

CJ

PS Thirty nine rings returned and counting!!

 

[Wayne in BC]

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[Micheal_R]

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[Cupajo]

Living in this small community on the Connecticut Shore for over forty years has been a rare opportunity for me to enjoy metal detecting as a hobby. Any jewelry I have recovered that I could return to the rightful owner has been returned at no charge with one exception (The expensive diamond ring was recovered from a ceptic tank!).

Over the years I have become the "go to guy" locally, when rings etc have been lost. Last year I recovered three lost rings in a two week period, one from dry sand and two from the water. At the end of the season last year, for the first time, I asked for a token fee of $10 or $20 to cover the cost of batteries, but that would never be a consideration if the owner could not afford it.

Some of these jewels have been lost for many years by the time I found out about them and I have two I am searching for now that are interesting in that one was lost in the early 1940s and the other is a large diamond ring worth a fortune.

I searched for and recovered one ring that was lost for over forty years (I checked every find for three years before I recovered this one. The owner got a nice article with pictures printed in the Hartford Courant the Nations oldest newspaper.) and recovered another valued at over $7,000.00!

I have been thrilled to return every one I could and will continue to do so for that reason and because it is the right thing to do. The legal aspects of returning these valuables has never been a consideration.

Good Luck and Happy Hunting Friends,

CJ

 

[mudpuppy]

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[Kelley (Texas)]

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[Cupajo]

Thank you mudpuppy and Fred for your kind words.

I'd like to live in a world where kindness and consideration along with respect were the norm.

I'm not sure how I feel about being saluted for "doing the right thing" when I couldn't do anything else and live with myself.

Maybe my Southern upbringing?

CJ