my first class ring and its old!

[okerraine]

my first class ring and it's old!

I went back to one of my old permissions that I have hunted out, and decided that I would just check the pull tab signals. And what do you know look what came out! I dug about 8 pull tabs out of this yard from the 1860's. Something was telling me that I believe these old yards were going to have gold rings. And I guess my hunch was right. It tested for 14 karat the markings are behind the year and it was about 5 or so inches down. I looked to see if anyone's names or initials were on the inside and I could not find it. The only thing that I have is the year and the initials for PHS in which the P stand for the town's name. I did find this with my Teknetics t2 as I did with my other gold. It weighs 4.6 grams

 

[jcobb]

Awesome!!!

 

[kam50]

Beautiful ring!!

 

[mlayers]

That why I did pull tabs never know when it will be a ring

 

[bill from lachine]

That's one sweet graduation ring....circa 1915 was considered pretty high education graduating from high school in that era and those who could afford a gold ring were probably pretty well off at that time.

Regards + HH

Bill

 

[Erik in NJ]

Great ring! I dug a pulltab signal at an 1840s house this summer and it truned out to be a modern diamond engagement ring with 5 oval - 1/3 carat diamonds! Congrats on the fantastic ring!

 

[Michiganne]

Beauty of an old ring. Congrats!

HH

 

[Deno]

That is really nice.

 

[okerraine]

Guys and gals thanks so much! And Eric in NJ I I remember that post that was awesome. That was a honker of a gold ring from what I remember

 

[Fixitdave]

Hi my class ring has phs one which stands for paris high school which is located in paris missouri but there were probably a lot of schools with those initials cool ring still yet to find gold here

 

[accuweather]

Nice find!

 

[BosnMate]

Gotta dig the pull tabs. That is a great ring, and must have been lost close to 1915, looking at the photos I don't see any wear.

 

[Gunrunner61]

Awesome ring...................HH

 

[okerraine]

BosnMate- you are right, because I can feel the sharp edges around the ring where it hasn't been worn

 

[Chug And Red]

Now thats One Sweet Pull tab!!! HH Chug

 

[pl8man]

Beautiful ring !

 

[RedCardHack]

Very Nice!!

 

[TNGUNS]

Wow......great find......CONGRATS

 

[NeoTokyo]

Awesome find.

 

[xtrmdigger]

So far all of my pulltabs were umm pulltabs, but hey, great ring! keep swinging!