First Class Ring!!

[Idaho PRB]

I got permission to detect a Yard several houses down from mine yesterday. The houses in my neighborhood are from the early 1900's. The first go around yeilded some clad and one 1946S wheat, it was stormy and started to rain so I quit early. Today I slipped over there for an hour or so while my Daughter was supposed to be taking a nap with Momma. I decided to take some advice from Lonewolf and forget about the display screen and just listen to the detector. I usually dont find rings because I am so worried about foil and pulltabs but ignoring the screen and just digging signals that were repeatable in all metal mode with the bottom 2 notches discriminated out yeilded two rings and some clad in the first 10' X 20' section of lawn. One ring was a cheapy but still looks old, with the stone gone. The other one was a class ring with "HHS" on the front, a 2 on the left side and a 9 on the right side (with the "HHS" in perspective) I take this to be 1929. "10K" and "G.B.CO." stamped on the inside perimeter of the ring on opposite sides and the initials " M.GP." on the inside top of the ring. I was stoked.
Idaho PRB

 

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[Michigan Badger]

Super Find!

I learned a long time ago to use little discrimination and not to put complete trust in those meters. I dig all foil. My last great jewelry find read as a TAB.

Badger

 

[Mighty AP]

Every single ring I have dug (only seven in my short detecting career) has shown up as a pulltab. I try to dig every tab signal but after a couple dozen it gets old. I wonder how many rings I have passed over cuz I was a little frustrated? I usualy dont ever dig the foil signal because it has always been a shredded can or gum wrapper. I guess I should suck it up & start diggin em, eh?

 

[mlw67]

Sweet find! Congrats!

When I used to hunt with an XLT, I would watch the bars on the graph. When a signal registered as junk and there was more than one bar, it was usually junk. What I watched for was junk signals with one single bar. Those were usually nickels or gold. Now that I'm hunting with a Classic IDX, it is a little tougher since it doesn't have quite the spectrographic readout that the XLT had, but I can still pick out those slightly steadier tones and slightly steadier readouts on the screen in the junk range. I still dig some junk this way, but I've found those are also the gold and nickels more often than not.

 

[Diggincoinz]

Very nice ring! CONGRATS!

Super Find!

I learned a long time ago to use little discrimination and not to put complete trust in those meters. I dig all foil. My last great jewelry find read as a TAB.

Badger

Oh man! Is that the same for a Garrett machine? I'm with Mighty AP, I'd better dig them all too.

 

[icegator]

congrats on the ring

ice

 

[Green1]

sweeeeeet ring,, the only thing i never dig is a tab with a 26 reading on the mxt, its common in mass to pull the tab off the soda can and toss it,, those dirty rats,,,, if i miss a ring its my own fault, but some places i go are loaded with these things.. ow my back,,

 

[allen]

are you going to try to find the owner? i think hed be happy to get it back, if hes still alive. keep on digging...

 

[Nana40]

Beautiful find!

And yeah....dig that foil too! Although I have only found one gold ring, it was down there in the foil section... :P

Congrats!

Nana

 

[Mona Lisa]

Wonderful ring, Idaho.

It would be great to track down who lost it. It would take some detective work, but it would be rewarding.

 

[Boobydoo]

Awesome gold ring, congrats to you on this great find.
Great to see the pics, nice job!

Smiles!
BDoo

 

[Idaho PRB]

Thanks for all the positive feedback. I went back again and picked up a few more wheats, some early ones. Ive got them in Olive Oil right now. I'll post dates and pic's soon. I also found a "Key" on a chain. It is actually a pocket knife with one small blade. It says "CRAFTSMAN" on one side and "Your key to Quality" on the other side. I thought it was pretty cool. I still have about 40% of the yard to detect.
Idaho PRB

 

[Monty]

With my Garrett 2500 all the gold rings I have found bounce back and forth between a nickel and a pull tab. The silver ones was no mistaking, they rang in loud and clear with the familiar Garrett belltone letting me know the object was silver and the size of a quarter..... usually. Also I have never found a ring deep. They have all been 4" or less. With my ACE 250 the signals are about the same except a gold ring or gold tends to show up as a nickel, but won't lock up. I recover a lot more nickels with the ACE than any other detector I have owned. But for every nickel I dig about 4 or 5 pulltabs. Maybe it's because I dig more pulltab signals when using the ACE? Anyway I posted this just to demonstrate the diference in detectors. Monty

 

[Nitro 54]

Wonderful ring, Idaho.

It would be great to track down who lost it. It would take some detective work, but it would be rewarding.

If they were still alive, they would be 95 years old!!!

 

[Southcacalaky]

Great Job on the Class Ring, HH Art...

 

[lambretta]

Wonderful ring, Idaho.

It would be great to track down who lost it. It would take some detective work, but it would be rewarding.

If they were still alive, they would be 95 years old!!!

I would do the research anyway. It's excellent PR for us. I doubt that the owner is still alive however, more than likely they had children. Doing this may open up more places to detect for you, and at the very least, you will make someone else very happy.

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Great find, the owner could still be alive, returning it would be far more worth than the retail value of a few miserable bucks. HH, Mike

 

[trk5capt]

Very Nice, Congrats. trk5capt...

 

[Idaho PRB]

"I would do the research anyway. It's excellent PR for us. I doubt that the owner is still alive however, more than likely they had children. Doing this may open up more places to detect for you, and at the very least, you will make someone else very happy." Quote

Any Ideas on where to start the research to find the original owner?
Idaho PRB

 

[dave-enc]

congrats prb wtg
hh
dave+bobbie