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Family Heirloom lost in pond during wedding celebration at Knights Park Collingswood,New Jersey

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I received a call this morning from a very upset young woman explaining that she had lost her grandmothers ring this weekend while celebrating her own wedding. The good thing is she has an idea where she lost but the bad thing is the it was off the side of a small bridge crossing a pond. She went on to explain that her and her new husband were shaking a bottle of champagne while holding it over the side of the bridge and then suddenly realized her grandmothers diamond ring she was wearing was gone! Although this was not her new wedding ring which she was wearing on her other hand it meant the world to her just the same.

Although I had an appointment look for another ring today I agreed to meet her first in the morning since it was so close to my house. After packing my water detecting gear and White’s MX Sport metal detector I arrived at the little bridge at the park to be greeted by the newly couple. Going over a basic reenactment of the event I got on my waders,fired up my detector and entered the knee to waist deep water which was not only quite rocky on the sides but also had lots of leaves on the bottom giving the ring lots of places to hide. After numerous trash targets and a few coins things were not looking to good but I decided to look a little closer to the bridge even though they were both sure they saw it land in the water further away. A couple signals later I got the nice low tone signal from my metal detector and eased my scoop into the mucky leaves and carefully scooped and dumped the contents onto the bank of the pond. Moving the black leaves suddenly there was a shiny burst of gold,it was the ring! The couple shouted out in amazement”You got it!” I was equally surprised as this was not an easy find but there it was finally. Another incredible recovery and happy customer!

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Lost Wedding Ring Found in Collingswood,New Jersey

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I received a call from Justin explaining that while clearing the gutters of his house in preparation for hurricane Sandy he had lost his white gold wedding ring.  he had lost some weight and he had known that the ring was looser than usual but continued to wear it and noticed it had disappeared while doing the yardwork. He had searched for it for 2 days with no luck and found the Ring finders website and gave me a call. I met him that afternoon and I began my search in the landscaping under the gutter he had cleared with no luck after about an hours hunt. This baffled me as I could not find the ring anywhere! I decided to start from the top down and we got a ladder since I wanted to visually inspect the gutter and low and behold there was his wedding ring in with some leaves!  I got it!  He was very happy and appreciative to have it back.