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Ring Found in the Snow in Cherry Hill NJ.

  • from South Jersey (New Jersey, United States)
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Received a call from a woman in Cherry Hill. Her husband was out shoveling during the big 9 inch snow storm earlier in January. He took off his gloves and shook his hands to warm them and he felt his wedding ring fly off.

They piled up all of the snow from the driveway and have been looking for it ever since. They were worried about someone else finding the ring or an animal taking it. They found my website and called me.

We made arrangements for me to head over a 3pm today. I arrived and found a large pile of snow on a concrete driveway, uh oh rebar….

She showed me about where her husband was standing and I did a quick search of the pile. Too much interference from the rebar. I scanned both sides of the driveway and not a peep.

So we shoveled the pile of snow onto the grass. I started to search the snow, within 3 minutes and had a nice solid signal. Dug thru the snow and found a beautiful 14k white gold ring. The look on her face was priceless. It took longer to shovel than it did to find the ring.

She was so happy. I collected a few more hugs for the hug bank. Her side of the story will follow in a few days when I get her email. Leaving my house to the return in my front door was less than 30 minutes.

 

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Keys found in Coronado

  • from La Jolla (California, United States)

I talked with Dave on the phone about finding his car key. Seems it fell out of his back pack while he was at Coronado dog beach with his dog. He googled « detector rental »  and contacted DeMarco detector sales in NJ. After Dave found out that they were a continent away, Joe DeMarco  suggested that he call me, since I’m here in the same  area. Thanks Joe. Dave laid out a big square area in the sand where he thought he was camped and I proceded to run a grid pattern with my Minelab E-trac/15″WOT combo. After about 15 minutes and 3/4 of the box having been searched, I hit the right spot! Good job Dave to get me in the proper area!  Good to meet you and thank you for the reward!

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Lost Ring Fort Worth, Texas Tarrant County

  • from Fort Worth (Texas, United States)

Hello, my name is Henry Lucero and I joined Ring Finders to help recover and reunite lost jewlery with its rightful owner. We help recover lost valuables  (rings, silver, gold, watches, coins, cell phones, keys, any metallic valuable object) throughout the Dallas and Fort Worth metroplex and all surrounding areas. If you need our help please contact us ASAP.

Lost Wedding Ring Northwest Houston, Texas (Recovered)

  • from Sugar Land (Texas, United States)

 

Lost Wedding Ring Recovered Northwest Houston, Texas

I received a call from Fernando a resident of Northwest Houston on Thursday regarding his lost wedding ring.

Fernando stated he lost his ring today while trimming the hedges in his front yard. He said he had searched for several housrs and was unable to find his ring. Fernando said he later searched the internet and found www.theringfinders.com website and located the nearest Ring Finder.

I met Fernando at his residence this morning and was given the details of how and where he believed the ring had fallen of his finger.

The area to be searched was quite small, and the recovery was quite quick.

Fernando was quite surprised and relieved his ring was recovered.

Equipment used on this Recovery:

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Lost Electronic Car Key … Doheny State Beach, CA. … Recovered in the Sand

  • from Newport Beach (California, United States)

Thursday     January 16, 2014

My phone rang at 7:45 am as I was pouring my first cup of coffee. Adrianne had found my name online in TheRingFinders website. She asked if I could help her find an electronic car key that she had lost in the sand at Doheny State Beach. She was not sure if a metal detector could find this type of key because she thought it was plastic. I was sure it would not be a problem, but I brought a rake and a sifting tool in case I had to use them. We set up a 9:00 am meeting at parking area near where she lost the key.

Adrianne and her girl friend had gone to the beach the day before to go stand up paddle boarding. She left her key under the sand and put her sandals on top of them.  When they returned her sandals were gone, but she thought her key was still in the sand. She and two of her friends spent several hours on their hands and knees searching for it. It was almost as big as a cellphone  but it could not be found by sifting through the sand with their fingers.

I arrived about 15 minutes early so I walked onto the beach. There was an area about 40ft. square that was clearly marked by fingers that had been sifting the sand. I set up my Minelab CTX 3030 metal detector in all metal setting and began my search in the center of the area. Two passes of about 40ft. that took about 15 minutes and I had the car key in my sand scoop.

Adrianne and her friends showed up shortly after I found the key. She had brought her spare key so we could verify that the detector could find the material. She held the spare key up and said it looks like this. I reached in my pocket and pulled out the one I found saying, « like this ». She was so excited I thought she wouldn’t stop praisng me and thanking me. It was another nice day and it feels good to be able to have the time, equipment and experience to do this for people.  She did say, that she would find a better way to keep her key when she goes onto the beach.

 

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Lost Ring … Laguna Beach, CA. … Found in Sand

  • from Newport Beach (California, United States)

Friday .. January 10, 2014

It’s winter in So. Calif. and people are still going to the beach. I was in Huntington Beach doing some detecting when I got a call from Scott. He was in Laguna Beach at a small cove located at the end of Moss St. He and his wife Shauna had recently moved here from Denver and had spent the day at this beautiful beach with their two daughters. Scott’s platinum wedding band slipped off while throwing a football. It was getting dark when he called me and I asked him if he could wait 35 or 45 minutes as I was 15 miles up the coast. The tide had already peaked so we still had a chance to locate it. When we met he walked me down to the location he thought it came off. I stood back about 25 feet and told him I needed to adjust my settings on my detector. When I put my coil down on the sand to take the first swing I got a hit (metal tone on my detector).There it was a nice platinum ring. It was from past experiences that I chose to start my search  back from where he thought it came off his finger. This time it worked to make it a quick recovery.  They were very surprised and happy to have the ring recovered. Shauna told me that this ring has quite a story. This was the 7th or 8th time it has been lost and found. Scott told me he was going to have it resized, but he made sure he put my phone number in his contacts.

Two days later, Sunday 1-12-14 , I received another call from Jim about another lost platinum ring at another small cove in Laguna Beach. I drove from La Jolla Shores, CA. and we met at 7pm. The tide was high. He and his wife had come to the beach with their two kids to explore the tide pools earlier at low tide.

Jim »s story was different than Scott’s as he did not realize his ring was missing till he and his family were diving home. The ring would have been lost at low tide if it was lost at the beach in the sand. He did review some photos the had taken while at the beach  and the ring was on his finger. I did a grid search that evening for more than an hour and returned the next day an hour and a half before a minus .5 ft. low tide. This time I spent 3 hours searching all the sand area the size of a football field. This year I have found about seven rings after they were lost in the water. Most were lost at high tide and they were still recoverable even several days after they were lost.  This time I was unable to recover Jim’s ring. All searches are not successful.

I have several top of the line detectors. My favorite is the Minelab CTX 3030 and I use it for most of ring searches.

 

 

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Lost Rings lost in water can be found

Many people do not understand that rings lost in the sea or lakes can be found. Call theringfinders.com for assistance.  Also, make sure your rings have an inscription and if lost, place a notice on the internet. Many rings cannot be returned because owners never place a notification on the internet when their keepsakes are lost in the sea. I always check the internet each time I find a ring with an inscription. Merely list the inscription exactly as it is for easy searches on the internet.

I Lost My Ring

  • from Sugar Land (Texas, United States)

 

The Ring Finders Metal Detecting Service

www.theringfinders.com

 

 

John Volek

Houston/Sugar Land

http://theringfinders.com/John.Volek

Lost Diamond Engagement Ring Recovered in Glen Burnie, Maryland!

  • from Baltimore (Maryland, United States)
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As I mentioned in my most recent post, Sunday was a busy day! Right after recovering Rodney’s wedding band, I set off to meet Anthony in Glen Burnie. He contacted me early Sunday morning desperate to find his fiance’s (of less than 24 hours!) engagement ring.  Luckily I had my detecting buddy Lance with me for both outings. We work very well together as a team and being able to cover twice the ground is a huge plus. Here is Anthony’s take on how things went down.

On January 4th I made the final decision to purchase my girlfriend an engagement ring to give to her at midnight (because the fourth was her birthday and I didn’t want to give it to her for that.) So at midnight in front of twenty of our friends and family I got on one knee and asked her to marry me. She said yes and then the excitement followed pictures everywhere and a celebration. We decided to let the night drag on into an after party. We went to our friend’s house and had about six of us just hanging out. We all decided to go outside when my girlfriend decided to go play in the snow(she was excited so it was just her having fun.) However the ring had not been sized one hundred percent at this point. She eventually got out of the snow and realized that she had dropped her ring!! We immediately started to search the area with phone flashlights trying to find the ring. After a while we realized that all these people weren’t a good choice because we were just stepping on each others toes. We ran to Wal Mart to get materials for a search party since we couldn’t find a metal detector. Armed with flash lights, head lamps, a few rakes and will power we began our five hour search in the back yard. We still came up empty at around 7 am I was offered a metal detecting wand to help assist my search. Again no luck with the wand. After hours of searching I had finally decided to do some research on the whole topic of losing rings. Somehow I stumbled across theringfinders.com. I didn’t think that this would be any help because I was sure there was no one in the area but I decided to give it a look anyway. There ended up being someone roughly ten miles away from the house I was doing the search party! I was able to get in contact with Mr. Wagner and he said he would be able to come out later in the day because he had another call and he was checking to see what the weather was going to do. After I contacted him I decided I’d give it one more go just because I was still worried and wouldn’t be able to sleep anyway. I went and purchased a metal detector from harbor freight tools and now I was ready to go on a search again. Ok without saying much unless your trained don’t even waste your time buying one of these. Eventually we gave up even searching with a detector we were getting hits everywhere in the yard. As soon as I decided to call it a day Mr. Wagner called me back to say he was on his way around 10am. Himself and a colleague showed up shortly thereafter armed and ready to find the ring. I had a general direction of where we thought the ring was at so I gave them the perimeter and they were on the hunt. As soon as they started not even 30 seconds !!! into the search they were able to locate the ring!!!! They were both very nice gentleman and I was finally able to go to sleep after an all night search party in frigid conditions digging through snow with bare hands. This man will find your ring 100% don’t pass him up if you’re in need of help the price was next to nothing for such a priceless piece of jewelry.

Ring Loser

Anthony 🙂

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What a great end to a cold and rainy Sunday afternoon. Two searches, two recoveries…….and the 100% success rate continues!!!

Lost Platinum Wedding Band Recovered In Perry Hall, Maryland!

  • from Baltimore (Maryland, United States)
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The success continues! I must admit that I never imagined this 100% success streak would continue this long. The best part of it is not the actual streak, but the amount of people that I’ve been able to help out over the past few years.

The most recent, or should I say the most recent TWO recoveries happened this past Sunday(1/5/14)! The first was for Rodney. He called me on Friday explaining how he lost his wedding ring while taking down Christmas decor. I’ll let Rodney tell you how things went down after that.

Last week I took down my Christmas lights and decorations and was hurrying as it was quickly getting dark and beginning to snow outside.  As I finished and came into the house I realized that my wedding ring had somehow fallen off while outside.  I frantically went outside with a flashlight and attempted to locate the ring but was unsuccessful.  The next day I was searching the internet looking for anyone that may be able to help, when I came across the Ring Finders website.  I read Jim’s blog and was given a sense of hope that he may be able to help as he has a 100% location success rate.  I contacted Jim and we made plans to meet that Sunday to attempt to locate the ring.  When Sunday arrived I did not think we would be able to search as it was raining / sleeting with still over 5 inches of snow on the ground.  Jim arrived with his friend Lance and after introductions the two men began to search for the ring.  After nearly two hours of searching Jim began to thoroughly search each bush while on his hands and knees as a last attempt to locate the ring.  I heard Jim call out that he found it and immediately showed it to me.  Jim & Lance’s professionalism and skills were very present that day and I would recommend them to anyone who ever needs their services going forward.

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Stay tuned for the story of the second recovery in the same day!