My first actual "request to find something specific". 14K 1/4Carat diamond earring

[Skippy SH13]

My first actual "request to find something specific". 14K 1/4Carat diamond earring

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[DeepseekerADS]

Make sure you take some pictures!!!

 

[SouthFLdigger]

Check the other earing for ID at several inches to help you narrow it down. Good luck.

 

[cudamark]

Good Luck! Stud earrings are pretty elusive. When I need to find one, I use my gold nugget machine. My other machines usually won't get a signal from a tiny stud earring. I only have one pin pointer that will find one too! My old TinyTec.

 

[Metal Detecting Stuff]

It will probably need to be right on the coil to get a signal. Good luck!

Wayne

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[wainzoid]

Make sure you take some pictures!!!

Pics of the neighbor, or the earring?

 

[Loco-Digger]

Good for you Skippy. Good deeds have a reward all their own.

 

[Troller]

Nothing ventured nothing gained.

 

[perry2]

I have had 4 requests to find things// A logging chain-found 8" in the mud--a 8"x2" pin from a feller buncher-- found in 12" snow after about 1/2 hr--- a nice Platanum ear ring -found in the side yard(in other end of yard from where directed) ---Gold chain + cross lost while working in a flower garden--1 hr not found///
Now to find a large part from a trail groomer-out about 1/2 mile--I hope to go out the next good day/// Perry

 

[luvsdux]

The few times I've been asked to help usually turned into a bust. Seems when you get down to it, the person that lost the item is mistaken as to where it was lost or some other factor messes things up. I covered a lot of yard one time for a set of rings only to discover the most likely scenario was when the lady threw hay over the fence for their cows it was lost. Several days later the cows had been taken to the fair, then sold. Will never know if the rings left with a cow and got deposited somewhere along the way. Looked really hard for another one that finally turned up in the folk's garage when the lady of the house shook out her gardening gloves. I think the best chance for these situations to be successful is when one can do the search right away before memories fade, lawns get mowed etc.
luvsdux

 

[perry2]

Yes// when someone says "I lost it rite here" It most often means I discovered it missing rite here // I love the requests none the less// perry

 

[CaptEsteban]

I hate it when someone tells you that they KNOW where they lost it , but when you get there , it turns out to be , " I think I lost it somewhere around here !"
I was asked one time to help find an engagement ring that a woman lost while " washing her dog." I thought it would be an easy , quick find. Got there & she said that she was " flinging " dog shampoo off here hands & it could be over there somewhere , pointing to the back yard ! It was " pure luck " that I found that little ring with a tiny diamond in it, after about 30-45 minutes of searching. Months later, her boyfriend said that she had gotten made at him & had thrown it away in the back yard !

 

[eyemustdigtreasure]

Update: Wow... That was a complete bust. Went to the neighbors house (as agreed 2 days ago), and I showed up to a frustrated lady who couldn't find the other earring! So... no way to test it against the AT Pro, and whether or not I could even detect it. She rode with me over to the park and showed me where she thought she might have lost it... it was a 30 yard swath probably 700 yards long. AND... she lost it 6 years ago... ouch.

I gave it my level best and for about 3 hours I slow searched that swath... I had to dig EVERY little signal, because I didn't know what I should be looking for. I'm so glad the field wasn't trashy... As it was, I still pulled about $1.80 in change for my efforts, but there was NO earring recovered.



I also got to thinking "have I EVER found an earring that small?" Twice. Once because it was sitting next to a penny, and once because it was a GIANT stud earring at the surface of the sand (in Florida).

I'll have to send her a message, but given the depth of the coins I was finding (it's a WELL watered field), and how "loamy" that soil was... I'm thinking that earring has dropped beyond any hope of me finding it with AT Pro.

Ah well. At least I had great pizza tonight when I got home. (how's that for a random save.)

Skippy

Skippy - that's okay, most of the specific searches for lost (rings) that I've hunted for, turned up negative, too.
One lady said that she lost her ring "somewhere in the trees" - well, there is three groups of trees in the park
that she lost it! A largish area to search!
I have only been able to recover and return one of the gold wedding rings I've ever found. In the process of finding
the owner of another ring, using Craigs List and Facebook, plus the Service District that tends to the park.
Earrings are small tho,
We keep trying tho, right?