I posted at another forum over the past few years that I suspect have never been read by some of you readers.
I would like to submit them here, but don't want to bore you folks to tears!
This one is from 2008 and one of my favorites.
Let me know what you think,
CJ
Got a call from my old friend Larry from Norwich, Connecticut (about 20 miles from where I live) that a dear friend of his lost her wedding band in her yard and could I help???
How could I refuse a 92 years young lady a genuine effort to locate her lost treasure?
This afternoon at 2PM I met Larry and he took me to the lady's house (Circa 1709--2nd house on the site as the first had burned to the ground).
As we chatted prior to the search, I was told that the wedding band (it had been her mothers wedding band and was well over 140 years old) had slipped off her finger because she had lost weight in the past few years, and that she had also lost her original wedding band and a heavy silver ring she had since childhood.
Suddenly there are now three rings, 2-gold and 1-silver to find.
Using the Infinium LS in an urban setting has its challenges. I pretty much ignored low high signals as I was looking for gold and didn't dig any of the high lows because the grass was thick, tho well trimmed and reason told me that the rings hadn't been there long enough to be forced beneath the soil.
A few bits of scrap metal later and the Vibra-Probe pin-pointer forced down through the grass exposed her original wedding band lost seeveral years before. It was barely under the surface of the soil and I handed it to the lady complete with a soil plug still inside it much to her amazement. It was a beauty of white and yellow gold.
Heartfelt hugs and a few tears later I told her we still have a couple more to find and I started searching the path she had used the day she realized she had lost the other wedding band.
I found that as soon as I started swinging in the opposite direction from my original search pattern I began getting severe high frequency interference. I spent a few moments tuning the machine to ignore the frequency chatter and returned to the search.
The lady had to go in the house to make a phone call and a couple of feet beyond where I was searching when she went inside the Infinium/Vibra-Probe combo located ring number two much to the astonishment of my friend Larry who had never seen a detector used before today.
We went inside telling the lady that it was getting cold outside so we decided to quit searching and she agreed . That was when Larry handed her the second ring. The sweet ladies gratitude was more than payment enough for less than an hour of my time and folks I look forward to the next time as much as this time.
I have been happy to return 33 rings to date, each with it's own story, but few appreciated as much as these two.
GL&HH Friends,
Cupajo
PS
No I didn't get pictures of the rings, I hardly even looked at them as I was too busy enjoying the moment and watching the response of my old and new friends. (Also I now have an open invite to search her yard any time I want!!!)
Part two from a year or so later-----
Yesterday I finally had a chance to trek the twenty miles or so to hunt the yard of the lady I found the two wedding rings for and wrote about in Two out of three aint bad!! a while back.
After three hours of searching the three hundred year old property on a corner lot in one of the oldest communities in Connecticut with my Excal. I had a recent edition nickel and four pennies, a three inch piece of lead pipe and various odd pieces of nails and screws etc.
Not one thing of any significance and I was hot, tired and a little disappointed. I was also trying to find a coin lost by her Grandson that was supposed to have some rarity and the silver ring she mentioned when I found her wedding bands to complete the set. No luck there either.
The lady agreed to let me take pictures of the wedding rings and here they are for your viewing.
The plain gold band is well over a hundred years old and was the wedding band of this 92 year old ladys Mother.
The wider band is mostly yellow gold with white gold accents and very pretty. She had worn it over seventy years when it fell off her finger while she was gardening.
On a cooler day sometime in the future I want to finish searching the yard and then perhaps I can share the "rest of the story" with you.
GL&HH Friends,
CJ
PS The lady declined my request for a picture of her lovely face, so her hand will have to do.
I did return for a "yard hunt", but ring no. 3 remains at large!
The lady told me she was pretty sure it fell into a plastic bag of weeds when she was doing yard work and is likely lost forever.
I was amazed to discover how few old coins etc there were in the yard. I did find a few clad and the usual pennies, but no silver and nothing else worth getting excited about.
I have thought I may return with my Sov.GT for another go as she had mentioned her grandson losing a rare coin in the side yard! (I searched for it with no luck, but-----------)
Regards,
CJ
I would like to submit them here, but don't want to bore you folks to tears!
This one is from 2008 and one of my favorites.
Let me know what you think,
CJ
Got a call from my old friend Larry from Norwich, Connecticut (about 20 miles from where I live) that a dear friend of his lost her wedding band in her yard and could I help???
How could I refuse a 92 years young lady a genuine effort to locate her lost treasure?
This afternoon at 2PM I met Larry and he took me to the lady's house (Circa 1709--2nd house on the site as the first had burned to the ground).
As we chatted prior to the search, I was told that the wedding band (it had been her mothers wedding band and was well over 140 years old) had slipped off her finger because she had lost weight in the past few years, and that she had also lost her original wedding band and a heavy silver ring she had since childhood.
Suddenly there are now three rings, 2-gold and 1-silver to find.
Using the Infinium LS in an urban setting has its challenges. I pretty much ignored low high signals as I was looking for gold and didn't dig any of the high lows because the grass was thick, tho well trimmed and reason told me that the rings hadn't been there long enough to be forced beneath the soil.
A few bits of scrap metal later and the Vibra-Probe pin-pointer forced down through the grass exposed her original wedding band lost seeveral years before. It was barely under the surface of the soil and I handed it to the lady complete with a soil plug still inside it much to her amazement. It was a beauty of white and yellow gold.
Heartfelt hugs and a few tears later I told her we still have a couple more to find and I started searching the path she had used the day she realized she had lost the other wedding band.
I found that as soon as I started swinging in the opposite direction from my original search pattern I began getting severe high frequency interference. I spent a few moments tuning the machine to ignore the frequency chatter and returned to the search.
The lady had to go in the house to make a phone call and a couple of feet beyond where I was searching when she went inside the Infinium/Vibra-Probe combo located ring number two much to the astonishment of my friend Larry who had never seen a detector used before today.
We went inside telling the lady that it was getting cold outside so we decided to quit searching and she agreed . That was when Larry handed her the second ring. The sweet ladies gratitude was more than payment enough for less than an hour of my time and folks I look forward to the next time as much as this time.
I have been happy to return 33 rings to date, each with it's own story, but few appreciated as much as these two.
GL&HH Friends,
Cupajo
PS
No I didn't get pictures of the rings, I hardly even looked at them as I was too busy enjoying the moment and watching the response of my old and new friends. (Also I now have an open invite to search her yard any time I want!!!)
Part two from a year or so later-----
Yesterday I finally had a chance to trek the twenty miles or so to hunt the yard of the lady I found the two wedding rings for and wrote about in Two out of three aint bad!! a while back.
After three hours of searching the three hundred year old property on a corner lot in one of the oldest communities in Connecticut with my Excal. I had a recent edition nickel and four pennies, a three inch piece of lead pipe and various odd pieces of nails and screws etc.
Not one thing of any significance and I was hot, tired and a little disappointed. I was also trying to find a coin lost by her Grandson that was supposed to have some rarity and the silver ring she mentioned when I found her wedding bands to complete the set. No luck there either.
The lady agreed to let me take pictures of the wedding rings and here they are for your viewing.
The plain gold band is well over a hundred years old and was the wedding band of this 92 year old ladys Mother.
The wider band is mostly yellow gold with white gold accents and very pretty. She had worn it over seventy years when it fell off her finger while she was gardening.
On a cooler day sometime in the future I want to finish searching the yard and then perhaps I can share the "rest of the story" with you.
GL&HH Friends,
CJ
PS The lady declined my request for a picture of her lovely face, so her hand will have to do.
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I did return for a "yard hunt", but ring no. 3 remains at large!
The lady told me she was pretty sure it fell into a plastic bag of weeds when she was doing yard work and is likely lost forever.
I was amazed to discover how few old coins etc there were in the yard. I did find a few clad and the usual pennies, but no silver and nothing else worth getting excited about.
I have thought I may return with my Sov.GT for another go as she had mentioned her grandson losing a rare coin in the side yard! (I searched for it with no luck, but-----------)
Regards,
CJ
I'm sure that he and his Lovely Friend are smiling down on me as I share this tale!
