1st Permission, 1st Ring and its my first Gold!

[qaela4]

1st Permission, 1st Ring and it's my first Gold!

First a little background. I spend most of my time TH's in my own yard and my 87 year old neighbor always asks if I found a diamond ring for my wife. Her yard is now infested with grubs and she is going to have it torn up and re-seeded so she gave me the go ahead to "have at it". First thing I pulled out was this earring that seems to be plated as it is tarnished. Next decent thing was the hinge, weighs 13ozs, no clue on age or anything else. Today was the third day I spent there and found this 18K wedding band! The hallmark is a sideways W, research reveals it is made by JR Wood and Son and the exact ring is in a 1923 catalog of theirs. They merged with Lenox in 1970 and changed their name in 1975 to Art-Carved. They are still in business today.

 

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[qaela4]

Did they ever come back? The initials on mine are HH and LR. In case they match with any of your wife's relatives. That would be crazy.

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No they didn't but the last name is Saari so initials don't match. Too bad, that would have been a heck of a cool connection!

 

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[Reiska]

No they didn't but the last name is Saari so initials don't match. Too bad, that would have been a heck of a cool connection!

I'm seemingly getting desperate at finding an owner for this ring. By the way, do you know which region they were from?

 

[qaela4]

I'm seemingly getting desperate at finding an owner for this ring. By the way, do you know which region they were from?

Pori

 

[redcobra8u]

Welcome to the gold club!

 

[pl8man]

Sweet 18K !

 

[jewelerguy]

that's an old ring. very cool find, congrats!

 

[scaupus]

You never know. I found a diamond solitaire in a residential yard about a year ago. The homeowners had lived there since the subdivision had first been built in the early 1950s. The ring was tangled up inside the shallow roots of the St. Augustine grass, indicating to me that it did not predate the subdivision's development. The homeowners and their family had no idea whose it was, or that it was in their yard.

 

[qaela4]

You never know. I found a diamond solitaire in a residential yard about a year ago. The homeowners had lived there since the subdivision had first been built in the early 1950s. The ring was tangled up inside the shallow roots of the St. Augustine grass, indicating to me that it did not predate the subdivision's development. The homeowners and their family had no idea whose it was, or that it was in their yard.

My neighbor has been living in her house for 70 years and had no idea whose it could be, couldn't think of anyone in all that time that lost one.