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Is This 1960 Wedding Band Yours?
Is this 1960 wedding band yours? Inscribed April 18, 1960, the keen nose of a family dog lead its owner to investigate. The discovery occurred over a decade ago at a rest stop near Grantsburg, Wisconsin alongside the St. Croix River off State Highway 70.
The conscientious individual that found this ornate love-token desires to return it to the owner or owner’s family. Sadly, much of the inscription is worn away. All that remains, as the photos show, is 14K F. (or J.)….. G. 4-18-’60.
If you recognize this ring or have any information that might help identify its owner, contact: Paul.Humphreys@TheRingFinders.com
262 574 7702.
It is my hope that the finder’s integrity will inspire many 
Grantsburg Rest Stop
Paul Humphreys
Metal Detecting Specialist
TheRingFinders.com
Wisconsin, USA
Lost Platinum Wedding Ring Found in San Mateo County
Lost platinum wedding ring found in San Mateo County
Last Saturday, Carl was working around his home in San Mateo County. After a full day of chores, he noticed that his platinum wedding ring was missing. The good news was, he hadn’t left his property all day, so he knew the ring had to be somewhere in the yard. The other good news was, he found RingFinders, the metal detector experts.
Two of us arrived to give Carl’s property a thorough search. In some cases, the recovery takes hours of searching, but not this time. We pulled Carl’s platinum wedding band out of the thick grass on the side of his home within about ten minutes.
Because rings are so dense, when they fall they immediately sink down to the ground level beneath all the blades of grass, where they are practically invisible. Carl’s lawn was healthy and thick, so the ring was completely hidden, even when you looked straight at it. But metal detectors can “see” right through grass, dirt and sand to find missing rings.
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Two Lost Rings Found in Sausalito
Cynthia with her parent's wedding rings
Cynthia always wears her mother’s and father’s wedding rings, which are beautiful hand-made antiques from Chile. She was wearing them last weekend while gardening in her back yard. Unfortunately, when she flung some clippings over the fence, the rings flew off too. After searching fruitlessly for the rings, she searched the web for Metal Detector Rentals and found us.
Cynthia lives on a hill in Sausalito, with a view of the marina from the back. Like many Marin County back yards, her back yard slopes steeply downward. The rings were most likely somewhere on that slope. The first thing we did was to repeat the accident with a “ring on a string,” another gold ring attached to a bright red ribbon so that it would be hard to lose. After five tosses, we could see that the ring consistently landed in a zone starting about 10 feet down the slope. That’s where I started searching.
The hill was covered with thick ivy. Unfortunately, the ivy also covered large rocks, tree stumps, and even some old terrace walls. These hidden obstructions created lots of hollows and crevices that could conceal the rings. I attached the small 6″ search coil to my metal detector, but some areas were so small that I still had to search many areas on hands and knees with a handheld detector.
After an hour on the slope, I had covered the entire target zone with no luck. Further down the hill, the slope was too steep to search. But I still hadn’t detected the area above the target zone, closer to the fence.
Within five minutes of starting to search the new area I pulled out the first ring. Six inches away I found the second one. Both were just eight feet from the fence. The rings were as beautiful as Cynthia had described them, and she was extremely happy to get them back.
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Video of the story that aired on ABC-7 News in Ft. Myers, Florida
Here’s a link to a story ABC-7′s Paul Gessler did about me finding Mya’s Daddy’s wedding ring in the Gulf of Mexico: http://www.abc-7.com/global/story.asp?s=18067257
Lost Ring Found in Saratoga
Lost Ring Found in Saratoga
Today we received a call from a client in Saratoga, a small Bay Area town near Los Gatos and Cupertino. She had just lost a beautiful handmade gold ring from India, while pruning a large jasmine bush in her front yard. She had searched for a metal detector expert on the web, and found us.
When we arrived, we found that the jasmine bush was indeed large-it was a sphere nearly six feet in diameter, and very dense. Our detectors can only scan to a maximum of 8-12 inches deep, so we were a bit worried. First we scanned the entire surface of the bush and an area in the ground around it, and also poked our detectors into the bush as far as they would go. Then our client told us we could easily untie the bush from its pole supports and flip the whole thing over. Once we did this, we scanned the whole bush again without any luck.
Then we scanned the area directly beneath the jasmine, around the area where the stems emerged from the ground. This area had been completely covered by the bush when we arrived. Bingo! Buried in about an inch of leaves and debris, we found the ring, and it was as beautiful as the client had described. The top of the ring featured a carved image of Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth. Not a very common ring in the Bay Area!
If you lose a ring in your back yard, or in bushes or planters, try not to disturb the area while you are searching-step gently! You want to avoid causing your lost item to move very far from it’s resting place. In this case, the ring was directly underneath the jasmine bush, but we’ve recovered items thirty feet or more from where they were lost. They were accidentally kicked there by overly enthusiastic searchers. Call us quickly and we’ll find it for you!
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Wedding Band Found…!!! Pickering, Ontario.
Tom called me yesterday afternoon and told me that he had lost his gold wedding band earlier in the day doing some yard work around his home.
I was able to make it out to Tom’s home this morning, Tuesday May 1,2012.
This was my second straight search in my hometown of Pickering.
I could get used to all my searches being so close to home.!
Anyway, Tom re-created what he had been doing around the house the day before, like picking up and bagging some yard waste and also re-attaching sprinkler heads around the lawn and gardens, both at the front and back of the house.
I grabbed my gear and we decided to eliminate the bagged yard waste first.
After thoroughly checking both bags without a signal, I moved off
to the backyard to check around the sprinkler heads….nothing.
Then, the backyard was searched and still nothing.
We then moved off to the side of the house where Tom had been trying to wrestle a bush out of the way yesterday, trying to get one of the sprinkler heads re-attached.
Tom held the bush out of the way for me as I scanned the area, and suddenly I got the signal we were looking for. I grabbed my pin-pointer, located the target and popped it out of some grass clippings and leaves….. there was Tom’s gold wedding band.
After sleeping under the stars for a night, Tom’s ring is now safely back on his finger.
Really happy I could come and help you out today Tom..!!!
Take care,
Mark Ellis
Lost Graduation Ring in Fort Langley BC…Found!
Hi and thanks for reading my story about a lost steel graduation ring that was given to students that graduated their Iron Engineering Course. The call came in and the young man told me the story that he lost his steel graduation ring while helping his girlfriend do some gardening at her families home. By the sounds of it he was pretty sure that it was lost some where in the garden and I felt my chances were good to find it.
When I arrived at the location I was greeted by the young man and his girlfriend, I got my detector out of my truck and fired it up, we started to head to the garden in question and before I could swing the loop more then 3 times we both saw the ring lying in the dirt…
He started laughing and it was over that quick! This is the second time in 3 hunts that the ring was found in a less then a minute. I have the greatest job in the world! I get to make people Smile!
I love my Job!
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Gold ring found, Manukau, New Zealand
I was at work a couple of weeks ago chatting with one of my customers about our Easter breaks…. in the conversation I metioned how it was a good one for me, found a gold ring… and I enjoy finding them etc , to which she replied … so you just find gold rings then… I explained that I actually use a metal detector to do it… Well , she then tells me how her husband had lost his deceased fathers wedding ring in the garden back in February, right before they were going back India to visit family, and the ring was meant to have gone along too… which it didn’t.. Anyway, I said I would be happy to come and have a look for it , I think she was a little dubious so showed her the Ring Finders site.. she had no idea this sort of thing existed. My Wife Monique and I went out there this afternoon, Terrence explained what he was doing in the garden… mowing etc.. luckily he kept all the grass cuttings in the compost, which if worst came to worst we would empty.. as it happened it was not needed. He showed me where he had been bending down to pick up some cuttings etc so I thought I would try there first…. well switched on the detector, moved the coil 30cm, got a signal… a good appropriate signal.. thought “no way”, grinned at Monique and said.. “pass me the pinpointer”, two seconds later the ring was returned to two happy and I might say, suitably impressed, lovely people.
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Lost Engagement Ring Found on Baker Beach San Francisco using GPS
Liam and Sarah with the lost ring, now found
Steph contacted me from Austin, Texas after returning home from a trip to San Francisco. While here, she had enjoyed a day on the beach with friends, and took off her grandmother’s engagement ring to apply sunscreen. She set the ring on the blanket, got distracted, and didn’t notice it was missing until back at the hotel. Steph tried looking the next day, but the ring was lost in the sand.
Steph found Ringfinders a few days later. We planned to meet her friend Sarah at the beach, so that she could show us where to search with our metal detectors. Then Sarah remembered that during the day on the beach, she had used the map feature on her iPhone to send their location to other friends who were on the way. Bingo! The map had GPS coordinates of the blanket’s exact location when the ring was lost!
We met Sarah and her fiance Liam at 7:15pm, a half hour before sunset. It turns out that Liam had also used his phone to send a map to other friends, so we had TWO phones with GPS coordinates of the hunt location! By the time we arrived, Sarah and Liam had already drawn a rectangle defining our search area. We found the ring within five minutes, buried near the center of the rectangle. Way to go, Liam and Sarah!
Immediately Sarah took a photo of the ring, and used her iPhone to send it to Steph. It turns out that Steph was at a wedding reception in Austin, and got very excited when she got the photo. She showed it to everyone at the table, and texted back that she was very happy.
We enjoyed the sunset with Sarah and Liam, then headed home happy.
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Steph's heirloom engagement ring
GPS map from Sarah's iPhone
How to Find a Lost Ring
How to find a lost Ring…You can rent a metal detector and spend the day searching for your lost ring or you can hire a metal detecting specialist from ”The Ring Finders” who have the best metal detecting equipment and know how… Our success rate is amazing!
Visit… www.TheRingFinders.com and have an expert help you find what you thought was lost forever!
Below is a testimonial about The Ring Finders…
It wasn’t just any ring that went flying off my finger while throwing snowballs at our husky. It was THE ring. The ring he chose all by himself. The ring he loved enough to give to me when he got down on one knee. And now it was hidden somewhere in 2 feet of snow!
We were newly engaged and still floating on cloud 9. Everything was perfect leading up to that afternoon of playing in the snow. The sunshine was glistening as we took turn tossing clumps of snow into the air. Our dog was jumping up chomping on them. I picked a big clump and tossed it with both hands. As I let go of the snow I knew instantly that my ring, which hadn’t been sized yet, was gone. Feeling it slide off the whole length of my finger was the worst feeling in the world.
We looked for hours. Tracing and retracing every inch of the dog park we were in. When our eyes failed us we shoveled 16 trash bags full of snow and melted them in the bathtub hoping to find my ring in the water. Bag after bag melted and bag after bag there was no ring. As my tears dried we slowly began to realize that short of a miracle, the ring was gone forever.
That miracle was discovering theringfinders.com on Google. They were great! There was no one in our area listed on the website but they found us a guy who lives down the street. Larry came the next day with all his gear and in 45 minutes had the ring back in my fiance’s hands. Larry’s strategy was simple and effective. He started with where I was standing and slowly expanded his search past where we had been looking until he hit the jackpot. We are so grateful to Larry and theringfinders.com for helping us! Instead of a tragic memory they gave us our ring, a great story to tell at the reception, and something my fiance can tease me about for the rest of our lives.
Christopher M. Corcoran
