$5000.00 Diamond Ring Return

[Whydah]

Last night I received a very frantic call from a guy who said that his girlfriend had lost her Diamond Engagement Ring over the weekend. I asked all the usual questions, how big, white or yellow gold,or was is platinum... stuff like that... We set up a time for me to go this morning and search an area only 30 x 50 relatively small...she proceeded to tell me the event on how she lost it and that they were having some fun with a fire and cooking marsh mallows... So I moved the fire pit and searched like crazy... after 1 1/2 search NOTHING... I just couldn't believe that I had to walk away... I felt miserable... I even called her back after leaving and was trying to think of all the other possibilities, I even suggested to look in the sink trap, maybe it was there.... well after a few hours I thought some more.... The only place we didn't look was in the fire pit, I called her back and told her to look in there... she said she had looked in there last night in the dark... I said go look again, you must all know the rest of the story... sure enough the BLACKENED 14 K White Gold 1 Carrot Square Cut Diamond Ring was in the ashes.... This ring was $5000.00 A great turn out for her and her boyfriend...

[Peyton Manning]

ok pal, why is it you have all the fun?

[Zodiacdiverdave]

WTG Whydah, I know it's hard to give up on a search like that, glad it turned out well.
ZDD

[wayfas4u]

Nice investigation.....that had to be satisfying for you to help them. Excellent fulfillment!

[justdon]

Thats a classy ring and you are a class act.

[jewelerguy]

it should polish out good as new

[G.I.B.]

Great story. Our campfires end up with so much aluminum slag it would have taken an intensive and quite detailed hand search.

I'm happy she got it back!

[westkybanded]

She's lucky, or the husband has some explaining to do...

Diamonds are carbon. They'll burn if they get hot enough.

[Back-of-the-boat]

I feel your karma increasing all the way here in Ca. WTG

[thrillathahunt]

Good story with a happy ending. You are an excellent ambassador for our hobby.

[Msbeepbeep]

You are the Sherlock Holmes of detecting and happy endings! Congrats on a job well done!

[oxbowbarefoot]

Wow, nice save! Its amazing the diamond didn't crack in the fire. I know they are formed with heat and pressure, but fire does funny things to crystals sometimes. Hope the gold cleans up for her!

[pepperj]

It's great to see it was found in the ashes, one would think it was a goner being lost in the fire.