Super nice gold ring score! Congrats! Is the stone a ruby?
Sounds like the previous MDer's were just cherry picking the silver and clad, but left the nickels, aluminum,...and GOLD for you!
Yep, I think that's totally what happened. Cherry pickers left the cherry's for me!
The ring's stone is orange and heart shaped. I suspect Citrine... It's a class ring. Its not one from a major institution, and there's not a lot to go on. So, I think this one is destined for melt. All I've got is a year and and the High School Initials on the front. There's no high school within 100 miles of here with those initials, though... making it anyone's guess what state or location it came from. I might have been able to find the owner with a name, and there WAS a name on the inside, but it's in that stupid extra-flowery script font and with the wear, it's not even legible even under 20x magnification. I've tried 3-ways to Sunday to read it, and can't make it out. That's probably the worst mistake that owner ever made... If you're going to have a name put on the INSIDE of a ring, do it in the most legible way... I totally would have loved to have a return... The $40 in melt or so that I'd get isn't worth the good feelings of returning it...
Also sadly, it's an UGLY ring in my opinion. That orange stone is gross. I asked my wife if she'd like it, if I buffed out the letters and date on the front (it's a very plain ring otherwise..) and her comment was "NO WAY... I don't even like the fact that I'd be wearing something you found in the dirt, but to wear one that was ugly, too? NO WAY" I just laughed.
She's not a big jewelry fan... even though I've bought her plenty, but she only wears the three stone anniversary ring I gave her on our 10th. Even the big 81 diamond ring, she took one look at and say, "no thanks."
The ring find is on Craiglist for a month, on the extremely off chance someone lost it recently but after that, sadly, it'll go into the scrap heap.
Skippy
