Ring #136 is Gold with a nice diamond !

pl8man · Nov 2, 2014

Got out this morning with my Son Carson and my friend Kevin to hunt a large school field . We were finding clad everywhere ! I got a nice +18 , +20 at 1 inches along the side lines , ring #136 for the year . It didn't look great so I put it in my pouch and kept hunting . I found two Kennedy halfs and some kind of whats it ? After about 3 hours we were done . We walked back to the trucks to show what we had found . I took the ring out and cleaned it off a bit , could it be gold ? My son looks inside and sees 14K :headbang:

!!! It has a nice clear stone , maybe a diamond :thumbsup:

. I had gold and didn't even know . Total clad for the hunt was $11.91 .
HH
Glen

WheatWaffle · Nov 3, 2014

Nice find!

CASPER-2 · Nov 3, 2014

Lefty · Nov 3, 2014

Nice find. Let us know if the diamond is real.

scaupus · Nov 3, 2014

imho - looks gold plated, from the damage i can see in your very nice macro shots of the cleaned ring. The copper color when first found would not indicate gold, but rather copper that migrated up through the plating. Your first impression was right. The dimples may have contained tiny melee stones that fell out, they would have been an accent for the large stone. The dimples seem kind of implausible otherwise, not being very attractive, especially considering what a real diamond that size would be worth, and the quality setting one would expect for it.

But, it does say 14k, so maybe it is real! I hope they weren't lying when they stamped it.

rodarian · Nov 3, 2014

Nice ring. Always fun to dig the halves aswell. :thumbsup:

Fingerlakes119 · Nov 3, 2014

Great Find. Boy what a nice diamond.

pl8man · Nov 3, 2014

scaupus said:
imho - looks gold plated, from the damage i can see in your very nice macro shots of the cleaned ring. The copper color when first found would not indicate gold, but rather copper that migrated up through the plating. Your first impression was right. The dimples may have contained tiny melee stones that fell out, they would have been an accent for the large stone. The dimples seem kind of implausible otherwise, not being very attractive, especially considering what a real diamond that size would be worth, and the quality setting one would expect for it.

But, it does say 14k, so maybe it is real! I hope they weren't lying when they stamped it.

It's not plated and does test 14k . The copper color you see was all over it when I first dug it up . Then I cleaned it and most of it came off . I can't seem to get all of it off in the tiny areas .
Glen

wildcarrot · Nov 3, 2014

Glenn
Congrats on #136 and a nice one at that! I'm dying to know whether the rock is real? You need a little diamond tester to check it yourself.
The suspense is killin' me... :laughing7:

Rich

ANTIQUARIAN · Nov 3, 2014

Congratulations on yet another gold ring Glen! :occasion14:

Good thing Carson recognized it for what it was eh! :laughing7:

Dave

Msbeepbeep · Nov 4, 2014

Congrats Ring King that is quite a looker! WTG! Hope that stone is the real deal, that would be awesome!
Your getting very close to 150, just maybe you'll clear 200 this year! Go for it!
Good thing Carson was there to ID it.

I just throw mine in the goodie bag and keep hunting too because I leave my glasses in the truck and can't see the small print without them, and you never know what may pop up next!