Extreme Detecting = Gold Ring

[carcusrex]

Another day detecting on the snow covered ground along the shores of the Great Salt Lake. This time a better find then a half dissolved silver ring. This time a GOLD ring. Now this may be second nature for you folks near beaches but this is not easy here in Utah. LOL, this was the first time that I have been detecting with ice in my beard.

 

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[kw509]

I tried detecting by Saltaire last summer. Didn't do well though. Good find with the ring & I heard it's brutally cold there right now.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

When you get it cleaned up I am pretty sure it's Black Hills Gold ring.

 

[kw509]

That's what it looks like to me. Nice find.

 

[carcusrex]

Interesting, I don't know much about gold types. What makes you think Black Hills gold?

 

[wolfbynight]

12k, Is black hills gold. Great find.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

The grapes and leaf design is on most Black Hills gold and it will probably be two different colors of gold a rose and a golden gold.

 

[carcusrex]

That describes it to a T. Here are some closer pics. Anyone know the age range of this combo of gold and design? I believe from my research that people were swimming in this locality from the late 1890's to about the 1940's. There is not a mint mark on the inside well not a stamped mark. There seems to be a hand written "els 4" not sure what that means.

 

[CoinShooter23]

Very nice detail on that ring!

 

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[Msbeepbeep]

Now that is some hard won gold! Congrats! You get AAA for effort!

 

[doninbrewster]

Way to go! It nice to be rewarded for detecting under tough conditions.

 

[carcusrex]

The grapes and leaf design is on most Black Hills gold and it will probably be two different colors of gold a rose and a golden gold.

So I did some research and Wiki explains "Black Hills Gold Jewelry" very well. It seems a french guy by the name of Henri LeBeau passed out and had a dream about grapes and leaves. My guess is he missed his motherland of vineyards and so started a design that still stands today.

 

[romeo-1]

Nice find!!

 

[jewelerguy]

awesome find!

 

[Gunrunner61]

Cool find Like that gold, not sure what ct. or why they call it Black Hills
Cool anyway............HH

 

[treblehunter]

Very beautiful ring, interesting also. Congrats on a great find, way to tuff it out in the cold, your hard core!

 

[carcusrex]

Cool find Like that gold, not sure what ct. or why they call it Black Hills
Cool anyway............HH

Hi Gunrunner61,
Apparently "Black Hills Gold Jewerly" is a style of Grapes/leaves/vines with up too three differnt colors of gold (Red, Yellow, Green) combined in one ring. If you do a internet search on "Black Hills Gold Ring" you will see a lot of these types of designs. Infact I learned that South Dakota has a law that if you are calling it Black Hills gold jewelry then it needs to be made in Black Hills South Dakota. It used to be that the gold also had to have been mined there to but they dropped that part of the law.