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Lost Cartier White, Yellow, and Rose Gold Ring…Recovered!!!

  • from Walnut Creek (California, United States)
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Bay Area Ring Finders: Brendon Chapman… Metal Detecting Service/Call ASAP     925-580-2590

Corey has been married for just over a month.  While performing some home improvements in his back yard, he had performed many different tasks.  At the end of the evening he realized that during one of those tasks, his Cartier white, yellow, and rose gold wedding band and came off of his finger and was lost to the yard.  Utilizing AI, he was first informed of the Ring Finder Service, but he was on a different mission.  He was looking to order a metal detector, which he did.  As a back up plan, he contacted me to learn about what I could do for him.

At the time I was scheduled to perform a daring low tide ring recovery in the San Francisco Bay.  These are not for the faint of heart and must be carefully planned as to not get sucked out the Golden Gate.  However, after surveying the conditions and the water depth where the ring was lost, this search was called off for another day and better conditions.  I reached out to Corey to see if he was available and headed over to his beautiful home straight away.

Once I had arrived, Corey met me at the curb and walked me to the backyard and through the events of the day the ring was lost.  I got started detecting the water feature, he was most certain it was there.  Then we searched the left side of the hill where he had slipped and fell that day.  I instantly knew that this would be the area we would find it and within seconds…We made the recovery!!!

 

He was both shocked and thrilled that the ring was found that quickly.  I told him that we found it before I even uncovered it.  He was almost in disbelief when I was right and handed him the missing wedding band.  It rang in at 50 in Field General on the Manticore and sounded perfect from the first swing.

Corey’s wife came out shortly after and we celebrated the recently recovered ring and talked at length about metal detectors and finds, and all was well that ended well!  Thank you Corey for allowing me to help recover this ring and best wishes to the newly wed’s.

Bay Area Ring Finders: Brendon Chapman… Metal Detecting Service/Call ASAP     925-580-2590

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AMAZING…14K wedding band lost for 25 years…RECOVERED!!!

  • from Walnut Creek (California, United States)
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Bay Area Ring Finders: Brendon Chapman… Metal Detecting Service/Call ASAP     925-580-2590 

Almost 25 years ago, a gentleman working in his yard in Oakland, CA lost his 14K yellow gold wedding band.  The family searched, but never recovered the ring.  In 2008 this same gentleman, a beloved father and husband, lost his life to cancer.  May he rest in peace!

Fast forward to July 2023, fellow ring finder and friend Jes Muse from THERINGFINDERS.COM requests that I cover a call out she had received.  Jes is recovering from a recent surgery and I wish her a successful and speedy recovery.  She sent all the pertinent information for me to reach out to Mr. Limon regarding his fathers lost ring.

After a brief conversation, it was decided that 7-18-2023 at 3pm we would meet at his childhood home.  This home is on the market to be sold and this week would likely be the last opportunity to search for the long gone wedding band.  We met on the street and he showed me the area we would be working,  a small terraced hillside that once was covered in ivy at the front of the home.  The hillside had since been reworked and the ivy removed, being replaced with mulch.

I set up my Equinox 800 and anchored in at the corner of the hillside and grid from bottom to top, right to left facing the hill.  The very first signal was perfect… a VDI (visual discrimination indicator of 16 in both directions….heart break as we pulled an odd brass like fitting.  We continued the grid search systematically removing every target we found.  Then, mid-slope almost exactly where Mr. Limon recalled his father telling him it was lost all those years ago…WE MADE THE RECOVERY!!!!

The signal was not as perfect as I had hoped, but may have been partially masked by another metal object or maybe laid in an awkward position .  The VDI was 18, 19, 20 at 4″ deep and I dug a large plug as to not damage anything below. There, in the spoils of the plug, was the 14K wedding band that went missing almost 25 years earlier.

After recovering the ring, Mr. Limon was kind enough to share all the details I have included above.  He and his family were also most generous in sending me some very emotion evoking photos later that evening.  Thank you very kindly for entrusting me with the search for this very precious piece of your family history and I’m very happy that it will continue to tell a very exciting new story.

The cleaned 14K gold wedding band that rested nearly 25 years in the ground.

Photographed with her late husbands wedding band after 25 years lost in the yard.

Mr. Limon with the fresh recovery of the ring.

Metal detecting the slope where the ring had been lost nearly 25 years earlier.

Bay Area Ring Finders: Brendon Chapman… Metal Detecting Service/Call ASAP     925-580-2590 

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