time4me
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The other day a neighbor of ours was down to see my wife, and as I had just finished cleaning my finds from my latest hunt, I showed her what I had found - some silver coins and a sterling silver ring. Barb, our neighbor, then asked how to tell if a ring is real (gold or platinum and real diamonds) or just a fake, because her son Sam had found a ring with lots of stones that looked like diamonds lying in the middle of the street near their house. I told her that I could check the inside of the ring with my loupe to see if it is marked inside, and she said she'd bring it back down later. Barb said that her son was going to post some flyers to see if anyone in our neighborhood had lost a ring, but that he was hoping nobody would claim it so that he could sell it and buy a new bike (an enterprising young lad!).
In the meantime, I checked the messages on our answering machine, and there was a message from another neighbor asking if we had found her wedding band at our house after she had been here for a small party my wife had thrown a few days earlier. Ding ding ding ding - the bells started going off in my head, so I went down to Barb's house to let her know that the other neighbor had left a message saying that she had lost her wedding band. Barb and Sam brought the ring out to show me, and holy cow it was a really nice old heirloom of a wedding band with eight or ten diamonds going three quarters of the way around the band. Although I couldn't find a stamp inside, I could tell that it had been resized, so maybe the stamp got lost with the resizing of the ring. Anyways, I told Barb and Sam about the message that we had received, and Sam returned the ring.
Other than a very genuine THANK YOU, I don't think there was any reward involved, but I know that knowing he did the right thing was reward enough for Sam.
I just wanted to relay this story here, because it made me really happy to know that there are good people out there, including young kids who would very much like to have a new bike, who don't hesitate to do the right thing.
Way to go Sam!!!
Jim
In the meantime, I checked the messages on our answering machine, and there was a message from another neighbor asking if we had found her wedding band at our house after she had been here for a small party my wife had thrown a few days earlier. Ding ding ding ding - the bells started going off in my head, so I went down to Barb's house to let her know that the other neighbor had left a message saying that she had lost her wedding band. Barb and Sam brought the ring out to show me, and holy cow it was a really nice old heirloom of a wedding band with eight or ten diamonds going three quarters of the way around the band. Although I couldn't find a stamp inside, I could tell that it had been resized, so maybe the stamp got lost with the resizing of the ring. Anyways, I told Barb and Sam about the message that we had received, and Sam returned the ring.
Other than a very genuine THANK YOU, I don't think there was any reward involved, but I know that knowing he did the right thing was reward enough for Sam.
I just wanted to relay this story here, because it made me really happy to know that there are good people out there, including young kids who would very much like to have a new bike, who don't hesitate to do the right thing.
Way to go Sam!!!
Jim
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Sam is the hero, even though he had inspirations of selling it and buying a bicycle 
Is he interested in metal detecting? Maybe you could take him out and show him a thing or 2 and he could find one he could keep.
