Safari sniffs out silver & gold!!

[Ray in CA]

Safari sniffs out silver & gold!!

A short hunt this evening produced a lovely 18K white gold ring with two pearls and two small diamonds!!! I found it in an easement adjacent to the one where I found the nickel trifecta, too!

I had decided that I was going to start digging some of the 18-22 values, hoping for a gold ring. This one came in at 19 in relic mode with ferrous tones. I figured it was just another pull tab but then decided to switch to coin and jewelry mode with conductive tones. This time the sound was just different enough from a pull tab in both ferrous and conductive tones that I just had to dig, and glad I did!

Just before the ring I was able to snag a nice little '62 Rosie dime. Both the dime and ring were down about 5".

Sorry for the low quality pics...ran out of good available light outside.

HH,

Ray

 

[juju]

Re: Safari sniffs out silver & gold!!

Awesome digs Ray. Those easements just keep on producing. WTG

JuJu

 

[Moonshadow]

Re: Safari sniffs out silver & gold!!

Beautiful ring......would love to see it cleaned. Big congrats!

HH,
Moon

 

[Ray in CA]

Re: Safari sniffs out silver & gold!!

Thanks guys.

Moon, I plan on taking it to a jeweler for cleaning and, hopefully, an estimate on its value. I'm not sure if its a vintage ring or not, but the easement where I found it obviously dates back to the early 1900s so it could very well be vintage.

Ray

 

[rogues71]

Re: Safari sniffs out silver & gold!!

nice ring thats a keeper bet it looks sweet after its cleaned up

 

[jrsherman]

Re: Safari sniffs out silver & gold!!

Beautiful ring and silver's always welcome! Congrats!!

 

[vanoldschool]

Re: Safari sniffs out silver & gold!!

nice roosie and ring, not whats an easment?

 

[Ray in CA]

Re: Safari sniffs out silver & gold!!

van,

An easement is the grassy (or sometimes dirt) area between the sidewalk and curb. Generally they are owned by the city, which means you can detect them without permission from the property owner. However, having said that, I don't detect nicely kept easements in front of houses. I will, however, depending on the site, go up to the front door of a property owner and inform them I'll be doing some detecting on the city easement in front or on the side of their property . But usually I'll confine myself to a side street easement or one that I know a property owner isn't going to come out and give me a hassle.

Ray

 

[crazyjarhead]

Re: Safari sniffs out silver & gold!!

That's a cool looking silver ring. Pearls?? That must be old. Nice Rossie too

 

[Pentico]

Re: Safari sniffs out silver & gold!!

She is a very lovely 18K ring for sure.
Bet she really will shine when you get her all cleaned up.
Sweet day for you!
Congrats Ray!

ChrisP

 

[Detectingfreak]

Re: Safari sniffs out silver & gold!!

Very nice job on the 18k white ring! Nice silver rosie!

 

[lonewolfe]

Re: Safari sniffs out silver & gold!!

Nice ring!

HH

 

[49er]

Re: Safari sniffs out silver & gold!!

Unbelievable find there Ray...You always manage to come up the goodies....I need you to come over here so I can follow you around...LOL....Keep up the great digs

 

[Ray in CA]

Re: Safari sniffs out silver & gold!!

Thanks again, folks!

49'er,

If you weren't so far away I'd be up there in a heartbeat! Have you ever taken the 12 out toward lewiston, ID? I took a trip out there a couple of months ago and noticed a few old homesteads about five miles apart each and still standing. Wished I had the time and my metal detector to snoop around a bit.

Ray

 

[Monty]

Re: Safari sniffs out silver & gold!!

Finally got my Safari figured out I think and wouldn't you know it, another health problem pops up! But I am much better and looking forward to taking that baby to some of my favorite spots soon. Good stuff Ray, keep at it. Monty

 

[Ray in CA]

Re: Safari sniffs out silver & gold!!

Okay, I have some disappointing news....the 18k pearl ring is not genuine. I thought it had felt kinda light for gold, which is why I'm glad I took it to the jeweler. Apparently it's just a knockoff. A fake. A fraud. Despite the 18k mark.

On the good side, however, at least the Rosie is real.

No only this, but I also took in one of my 14k ring finds from California, which he says undoubtedly dates back to the 30s or 40s. So now at least I have a general timeframe for this ring.

Ray

 

[Tank69]

Re: Safari sniffs out silver & gold!!

wtg

 

[Monty]

Re: Safari sniffs out silver & gold!!

Ray, when I was with the Police Department we caught several people peddling fake rings. They bought them in Mexico with the 18k stamped marks and pretended they were in a bind and sold them to people on the street for a hundred bucks or so. Actual worth about $5.00 at best! I'm surprised we haven't been finding more of these since the frauds usually had 50 to a hundred of them in their possession. Monty