Wedding Ring Find

[kelly spann]

Me and a friend decided to go detecting Tuesday around noon before it got to cold. We decided to go to a nearby park that we have not been to in awhile. I took my land star and my friend has a Minelab tech 50. We found alittle money and my friend found a small braclet in the sandy playground. It was a very nice braclet with religous words and crosses on it. Well I figured that would be our best find for the day and I said I was going to go around some very old oak trees that were about 15 to 20 yards from the picnic area. Other people plus myself have detected there before so I really thought I would not find anything anyway but what the heck. I was in disc mode and I got a signal that showed 9 to 10 inches down and that it was gold. I had a small shovel and was not doing very well in this hard clay we have in Texas, so my friend used his pick which helped alot. I switched to all metal mode to pinpoint it. We had to be careful as not to damage what it was. We lost the signal and I was not picking anything up anymore. We thought well it was a false signal or something it just disappeared all of a sudden, we were so disappointed until my friend saw something stuck in some clay that was stuck on the head of the pick and there it was a gold ring. It was a smooth gold ring with five large diamonds all in a row across the top. We took it to a custom jewelry and repair store and the owner said it was made in the late twentys to early thirtys because of how the diamonds were set in the ring that they don't set them that way anymore whatever that means. It was a womans wedding ring. After he cleaned it he appraized it at between 7500 and 8000 dollars. Our jaws almost hit the floor. I thought I was going to have a heart attack. He wanted to know where we found it , but I said noway that was our secret. As bad as I need the money I think I will keep it for alittle while and my friends braclet was worth about 12 dollars. I'll post some pictures as soon as I get a new camera I hope for christmas. Check around those trees!!!.

 

[roseon3rd]

Great..did I say Great FIND! That's the kind of thing that keeps us searching! Good job Kelly!

 

[GoGoGopher]

When I loose a signal, I start checking the dirt I have removed from the hole...I break it up and sift it through my fingers, then recheck it with the detector...sometimes I have removed the target without knowing it, and it sits on edge and is harder to detect that way...
Great find, and I think they would have had to use a defibrillator on me when he told ya the estimated cost...

HH,

 

[jackintexas]

Really good find. Congratulations......Jack

 

[dahut]

n/t

 

[1859large]

That is what keeps us going. Congratulations!

HH

1859

 

[jabbo]

The diamonds probably have the old style cut.

 

[kelly spann]

Hey jabbo you are probably right. He might have told me that, but I was probably in shock and didn't here him anyway. They might of had a different way of cutting diamonds back then, no high tech cutters and grinders like today. I went back to the park today and only found a few coins, about 2 dollars worth. Had fun anyway. Every find is a treasure to me, I'm 2 dollars richer than I was yesterday is the way I look at it.