$5000.00 Diamond Ring Return

Whydah

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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... one carrot diamond.jpg
 

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Peyton Manning

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

Zodiacdiverdave

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

wayfas4u

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

justdon

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Thats a classy ring and you are a class act.
 

jewelerguy

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it should polish out good as new
 

G.I.B.

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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

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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

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

Msbeepbeep

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

oxbowbarefoot

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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

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

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