Sweet little 18k band almost rolled up in the garbage.

[diggummup]

I was replacing carpet the other day at a house and while I was rolling up the old carpet I looked down and spied this beautiful little gold ring laying at my feet. This isn't the first time this has happened either.



I could tell it was gold and I could see an inscription inside the band but I couldn't read it so I put it in my pocket and went about my business. When I got home later that day I put a loupe to it and could see it was marked 18k and had a date of 27/10/66 inside of it. I asked the man I was doing the job for if he knew anything about the previous occupants and he said that it was a foreclosure and he didn't know anything about the previous owner. I tried a property search but it was in the name of an LLC. Oh well, I guess it's mine now.

[Chug And Red]

Great Save, I Have found jewellery that way before, The other good area to look is in kids toy boxes!!! Especially if you are trashing out houses or apartments. Don't forget to look under the bottom of the drawers especially in the kitchen an bathrooms!!!!! and furniture also

[Chug And Red]

Just got back and It was Pull tab Heck!!!!! 5.5 lbs of sinkers biggest was 16 oz , then there were the 2 rotted knives nails, bottle caps etc etc etc no gold or silver but i still enjoy the Addiction Will be back at it tomorrow morning!! HH Chug

[diggummup]

Thanks for the reply. Yeah I've found all kinds of little things in old carpet (mostly earrings), but then i'm always looking too. Found a ring in a kitchen drawer once. I found 10 grand in $100 bills once under the carpet in a corner in some guys house once. When I gave it to him he said he'd forgot all about it being there. No reward but he did give us each a $100 tip for the install though, so that was cool.

[pganjon]

Hi, I found an 18k band once that looked exactly like the one you have except it was damaged. It had a Scandinavian hallmark on it so when I took it to the jewelry store, they tested it and it turned out to be a little over 21k. Beautiful ring Paul

[AU Seeker]

Thanks for the reply. Yeah I've found all kinds of little things in old carpet (mostly earrings), but then i'm always looking too. Found a ring in a kitchen drawer once. I found 10 grand in $100 bills once under the carpet in a corner in some guys house once. When I gave it to him he said he'd forgot all about it being there. No reward but he did give us each a $100 tip for the install though, so that was cool.

I find that very hard to believe, if someone stashes $10,000 under the carpet they would never forget that they hid it there if they were apparently still in a lucid state of mind!!!!

My thinking is that the money was put there by a previous owner that past away, or due to Alzheimer forgot the money was hidden, and the present owner just said that!

I guess he is still the rightful owner of the money since he is the present owner no matter who hid the money to began with, or would he be?

Skip

[diggummup]

Thanks for the reply. Yeah I've found all kinds of little things in old carpet (mostly earrings), but then i'm always looking too. Found a ring in a kitchen drawer once. I found 10 grand in $100 bills once under the carpet in a corner in some guys house once. When I gave it to him he said he'd forgot all about it being there. No reward but he did give us each a $100 tip for the install though, so that was cool.

I find that very hard to believe, if someone stashes $10,000 under the carpet they would never forget that they hid it there if they were apparently still in a lucid state of mind!!!!

My thinking is that the money was put there by a previous owner that past away, or due to Alzheimer forgot the money was hidden, and the present owner just said that!

I guess he is still the rightful owner of the money since he is the present owner no matter who hid the money to began with, or would he be?

Skip

Who knows... but the home was worth a few million, so he had money and this is Miami in the late '80s were talking about.