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Hello everyone, On May 6th 2009 I was detecting one of my old standbys,an old fair that they stopped using in 1922 after a big flood.I work with a guy that owns a house directly in front of the old fair and although he wouldn't give me permission to do his lawn he did give me permission to do the tall grass and the rest of his property in the woods.Right on the edge of his lawn in the tall grass I pulled up a barber dime.After I finished in the tall grass I headed into the woods,there I picked up three early mercs.As I was leaving, where the woods meets the tall grass again, I got a signal,dug a plug and about 4" down in the bottom of the hole I could see the edge of a gold band. I pulled it out and it was a 1955 10kt gold M.C.I. class ring,YEEHAA!I don't find many gold rings.Inside were the initials H.A.B..I had a feeling it was a woman's ring by the size of it.It did have a crack in the band.I figured that was why they lost it.
Fast forward to March 29,2010.My Dad and a bunch of family gathered at my house for a small birthday get together for my sister in-law.I wanted to show my dad a few of my coins to send in with a few of his to get graded.I didn't think I had shown him this class ring yet so I took it out and showed it to him.He thought it was a great find.He had found an M.C.I. class ring a couple years ago his was from 1892/7?and he had tried to find the owners descendants but could not.It was featured in Lost Treasures civic patrol section.I told him that I was going to try to return this one but hadn't gotten around to it yet.With a graduation date of 1955 I knew that she must be 73 or 74 years old by now so I figured I'd better get right on it.
The next morning I called Sharon in Alumni at M.C.I. and told her what I had and that I would like to find out who it belonged to.She said that she would check into it and call me back.About ten minutes later she called and said that she had contacted the owner and that the owner would call me back shortly.I could hardly believe that she had found her.Ten minutes later came the call,She couldn't believe I had found her ring after all these years.She said her name was Hilda Hawkins but her name used to be Hilda Braley and that she had lived on that road many years ago.She had no idea that there used to be a fair there.She said she didn't know how the ring could have gotten there unless her young daughter had taken it across the road to play with the other kids.
I sent the ring out to her the same day with a note asking her for permission to write this post and for a couple pics of her with the ring.A couple days later she called me and said that she had received the ring and was thrilled and that I had her permission to post it and that she would get me some pics.April 12 I received the pics from her and now I am able to see her with her long lost ring and a smile that says it all!We are supposed to be meeting sometime in May when she comes up from Mass. and go out to lunch.It is really a great feeling to be able to do something like this and without our hobby most stories like this would never happen.
I hope you've enjoyed reading my post and best of luck to all of you.
Bootstrap
Here are the pics from the day I found it and after it was returned.
Fast forward to March 29,2010.My Dad and a bunch of family gathered at my house for a small birthday get together for my sister in-law.I wanted to show my dad a few of my coins to send in with a few of his to get graded.I didn't think I had shown him this class ring yet so I took it out and showed it to him.He thought it was a great find.He had found an M.C.I. class ring a couple years ago his was from 1892/7?and he had tried to find the owners descendants but could not.It was featured in Lost Treasures civic patrol section.I told him that I was going to try to return this one but hadn't gotten around to it yet.With a graduation date of 1955 I knew that she must be 73 or 74 years old by now so I figured I'd better get right on it.
The next morning I called Sharon in Alumni at M.C.I. and told her what I had and that I would like to find out who it belonged to.She said that she would check into it and call me back.About ten minutes later she called and said that she had contacted the owner and that the owner would call me back shortly.I could hardly believe that she had found her.Ten minutes later came the call,She couldn't believe I had found her ring after all these years.She said her name was Hilda Hawkins but her name used to be Hilda Braley and that she had lived on that road many years ago.She had no idea that there used to be a fair there.She said she didn't know how the ring could have gotten there unless her young daughter had taken it across the road to play with the other kids.
I sent the ring out to her the same day with a note asking her for permission to write this post and for a couple pics of her with the ring.A couple days later she called me and said that she had received the ring and was thrilled and that I had her permission to post it and that she would get me some pics.April 12 I received the pics from her and now I am able to see her with her long lost ring and a smile that says it all!We are supposed to be meeting sometime in May when she comes up from Mass. and go out to lunch.It is really a great feeling to be able to do something like this and without our hobby most stories like this would never happen.
I hope you've enjoyed reading my post and best of luck to all of you.
Bootstrap
Here are the pics from the day I found it and after it was returned.
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