lost jewellery Tag

Lost ruby and diamond ring found in Perth lake

January 12th, 2012 by

Jenny contacted me a few days ago with tales of woe. Her precious gold, diamond and ruby ring had slipped of her finger whilst wading at a popular Perth lake, which is located in the low hills above Perth. Lake Leschenaultia is a man-made lake that was built some years ago for swimming and recreational activities.

To her credit, Jenny marked the location in the water with a steel picket that the local ranger had provided her. Before contacting me, Jenny had also hired an underwater metal detector but was unable to dig up the target in the metre deep water. Jenny had actually seen the ring slide off her finger into the clear water so was reasonably confident in retrieving the ring.

I know from experience that nothing is guaranteed when it comes to finding things with a metal detector (especially in the water) so I tempered my enthusiasm whilst reassuring her that the overall situation did look promising and the chances of a successful retrieval was high.

I grabbed my detectors and gear and headed up to the lake with my family in tow. Joel, my son, was keen to hit the water and have a swim in the warm water and 95F heat. To hunt a freshwater lake is such a luxury for me with no ocean waves and sea-dwelling creatures to worry about! The nearest crocodiles are 2000 miles away which was an added bonus.

I headed straight for the steel pole which marked the area where the ring was lost. The pole had to be removed otherwise it would blast my headphones with a big signal. Jenny and some of her friends had earlier told me that they got a great signal in that area but couldn’t dig up the target. I quickly scanned the area and was rewarded with the much dreaded Jack Daniels screw cap. This was the object that they had spent some time trying to dig up ! I scanned around the same spot but nothing else was heard….Hmmmmmm?

About a metre to one side was a weakish signal which didn’t sound too promising but there was nothing else signalling anywhere near the marked area. I had to investigate the weak signal which was clearly down deep in the coarse sand. If this was the ring then it had sunk down due to the earlier efforts trying to recover it. I really had to be careful not to let the object sink any deeper due to inaccurate digging as I have made this mistake before.

After a few efforts to dig deep into the sand, I had the target in my scoop somewhere. I let the sand melt away from the bottom of my steel scoop and there lay Jenny’s beautiful diamond and ruby ring set in 18K gold…..what a sight and what a relief.

Jenny is now heading back to Sydney with the ring on her finger. Thank you for contacting me and giving me a chance to hunt down your ring.

Tony.

Here is the video of the actual retrieval…..

 

 

Lost diamond ring has been found, South Beach, Perth

January 6th, 2012 by

Ki contacted me recently via TheRingFinders as she had lost a very sentimental ring that had belonged to her Mum. Ki was kind enough to include a quick story of how the ring was lost as well as some nice photo’s. Here is what she wrote……

“The story behind the ring is that it was my mother’s engagement ring. Sadly mum passed away 15 years ago, when I was 13 years old.  Dad’s been looking after the rings until about 2 years ago when he passed them onto me.  I was too scared to wear them for the first 6 months and just kept them in a safe place.
After work on Tues went down to the beach for just a quick jump in the ocean, meant to take her rings off but forgot.  Figured I would be careful and not swim around too much… Didn’t count on the dog knocking them off!
Pandora (the dog), loves to swim, but also always wants to be picked up in the water.  She’s a flat coat retriever so it’s a bit of an effort. When she launched herself off me the ring got scraped off and went straight to the bottom.  I was looking and looking, about 6 other people were helping, stayed in till sunset so it was probably about an hour, and then Tim went back the next day for another 2 hours.

Found you by googling ‘Underwater Metal Detectors’…
Had no idea there was such a service as yours. We thought we were going to have to figure out how to do it ourselves.

But then you came and managed to find it so quickly. I still can’t believe I have it back. I am so incredibly grateful. Makes her ring even more special!

Thank you thank you thank you!!!”

Thank you Ki for contacting me…it was great to see that ring back on your finger !

All the best for the future,

Tony.

 

 

Wedding Ring Found at Locust Ave Park Islip Town

December 9th, 2011 by

I got a call from a Man who lost his ring playing football at a local park. He did not want to tell his wife. So he call me. I went down to thee field and he told me it came off after making a touch down. He showed me the area and off I went to search. It only took bout half an hour to come up with his Wedding ring. I took a picture of the ring and here it is

Lost 18k white gold and diamond ring has been found on Rottnest Island, Perth

November 16th, 2011 by

I headed off early this morning to Rottnest Island, which is about 20kms off the Perth coast.

Laura had contacted me as one of her friends had lost her ring after being dunked in the shallow water. I think they were celebrating her friends impending marriage so losing the engagement ring definitely wasn’t part of the celebrations. Laura was confident of the lost zone. I got details of the time the ring was lost and checked the local tide tables and it appeared the ring was lost at high tide and I was searching at low tide. Hopefully the ring might actually be out of the water.

Well the beach was littered with countless pulltabs and beer caps. This was an area that had probably never seen a metal detector so the amount of digging was unbelievable. I spent the next three and half hours gridding the area but the ring wasn’t revealing itself easily. I rescanned the area at 90 degrees and my final signal for the hunt was the ring! The glint of the diamond was the first thing I saw and what a great feeling it was too. I called Laura with the good news and then headed off to the Rottnest Hotel/Bar for a well deserved cold beer(s) as the return ferry was 4 hours away (most upset about that!).

Glad that today was successful as it wasn’t an easy hunt after all.

Tony.

Here is a quick picture and video of the find…

Diamond ring

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lost Ring Warwick, Providence, Rhode Island

October 26th, 2011 by

    Hi my name is Laurence Fielding. I am a Professional metal detectorist and Know what it is like to lose something of great sentemental  value. I am here to help you. That’s why I joined THE RING FINDERS . The sooner you contact me the better the chance we have of finding your lost item.

Free Publicity (of a kind).

October 24th, 2011 by

Its been a while since I posted anything on my blog – I just havnt had any calls, for my service. I managed to get a mention in my companies in house newspaper, but despite my best efforts I couldn’t get them to mention The Ring Finders.com or my e mail address, (I guess it must be against company policy). At least they spelt my name correctly !

Lost and Found Ring in Southwest Florida (Fort Myers Beach, Sanibel, Captiva Island, Marco Island, Estero, Bonito Springs, Naples, Venice, Sarasota, Cape Coral)

October 12th, 2011 by

From simple gold rings or bracelets to diamond-encrusted wedding bands… if you have a pretty good idea of where the item might be, I have the skill, equipment, experience and patience to find it for you.

I use special techniques to meticulously search intricate patterns in and around the area… on land or in the water. So, don’t just give up on finding your valuables!

I can be reached at: Larry.Spearing@TheRingFinders.com

Lost Ring; Troy, Albany, Schenectady New York area

June 26th, 2011 by

My Name is Daniel Hurley and I have a unique service here in Troy, Albany, Schenectady New York area that helps people find their lost jewellery at beaches, parks, yards.Everyone’s jewellery has a emotional story attached to it, and that story ends when they lose it…What I do is help continue that story by finding their lost items.

Thank you for your time and look forward to hearing from you!

Kind Regards,

Daniel Hurley

518-694-6886

Please visit my profile page on The Ring Finders Directory: http://theringfinders.com/Daniel.Hurley/

(When you want your lost ring to Find you!)

 

 

Lost Wedding Ring Found on Stinson Beach

June 7th, 2011 by
Lost Wedding Ring Found on Stinson Beach

Lost Wedding Ring Found on Stinson Beach

Last week we received a call from Ross in Atlanta, Georgia. His family had just returned from a visit to the Bay Area, including a day on Stinson Beach in Marin County. While there, his wife Kathia lost her wedding ring. After failing to find the ring and returning to Atlanta, Ross called The Ring Finders.

 

Ross sent us two important clues: a satellite map with a search area highlighted, and more important, a snapshot taken on the beach that happened to show the location where the family had been. While the satellite map was helpful, the photo gave us an even better fix on where the ring might have been lost.

Rain kept us from searching for four days, but we finally made it up Route 1 to Stinson Beach today. When we arrived, we mapped out the search zone based on the satellite map. This covered an area about half the size of a football field. However, by carefully locating a tree shown in the snapshot, we could identify a “sweet spot” that was about half that size.

Then the hard work began. We searched the sweet spot for almost three hours. After the first hour, a ranger told us we had to leave because we were on the Federal section of the beach. But when we told him Kathia’s story, he let us stay and search!

We assumed the ring would not be too deep, but you know what happens when you assume…At about 6:30pm, we got a deep signal in the last section of the sweet spot. Digging down eight inches, there was the lost wedding ring.

How did a ring sink to eight inches in five days? Our best guess is that rough weather had deposited more sand on the beach. Although the ring was located above the high tide line, there were indications that the water had risen much higher during the last couple of days. So a ring that might have started at a depth of two inches was now covered by six extra inches of sand. Fortunately, we had a metal detector that could find the ring that deep.

Wedding ring found at Stinson Beach

How I got started in the Treasure Hunting and artifact recovery game.

February 17th, 2011 by

It was Thanksgiving weekend in 1983, I was 9 years old.  We were sitting at the table and my little sister commented on how yellow my grandfathers eyes were, to my recollection that was the start of it, he went to the Dr. the following Monday and they next Friday We were all told that Gramps had Pancreatic Cancer(this is the Reason why I donate 25% of all my reward money to the American Cancer Society)…the next 6 months were kind of a blur for me.  Gramps was in and out of the Hospital taking Chemo and what not and he lost a lot of weight, drastic amounts.  he was out in the yard working on the Motor home one Saturday and when he came in for lunch he noticed his Masonic ring was gone, he had lost so much weight it just slipped off.  Gramps died 6 weeks later and from the time he lost his ring, myself and my cousins and grandmother spent all our free time looking for his ring so he could be buried with it.  Well needless to say we failed.  Grandma rented a Metal detector for a week back then and no one really knew how to operate it.  from that point on, I remember very clearly, I vowed to myself that one day I was going to be a Treasure Hunter and help People find their lost valuables….fast forward 25 years to October 2009, My Grandparents house goes up for sale “By Owner” I thought “WOW, I would totally love to buy that house”  after all I grew up there.  I called the Owner and got a tour of it and really wanted to buy it, however the owner decided to take it off the market and wait for the housing market to rebound a bit.  I was telling my grandmother about it and she said, “Well sweetie, if you can buy that house, maybe you can find your grandfathers Masonic ring”…then it hit me like a ton of bricks, that was the whole reason I ever got into Metal detecting and treasure hunting.  I called the Home Owner back a couple months later and told her the story and she seemed a bit reluctant, said she would have to think about it….The idea of being so close, yet so far away from a ring that not only my Grandmother would treasure, but myself as well, not just as a grandson finding a grandfathers long lost Masonic ring, but also as now I am a Mason…since the last time I spoke with the home owner my Grandmother has since passed on…How will this story end, will the ring be lost forever?……To be continued