Stephan’s lost Gold Wedding Ring found!
Stephan reunited with his lost Gold Wedding Ring
The other day I got a phonecall from a German guy living in Perth, his name is Stephan and he told me he lost his gold wedding ring at Point Peron near Rockingham whilst he was fishing at the beach.
He wanted me to do a search of the beach to find his ring, unfortunately I had to say no, because I was just too busy to do the search, but I promised him if he sent me his contact details and number I would find a person who could do the job and find his lost ring possibly.
So he sent me his details via email and I rang up a metal detecting friend by the name of David, who has a Minelab Excalibur, and the next day David arranged to meet Stephan at Point Peron.
David spent around 4 hours trying to search for the ring, but unfortunately had no luck, and both gave in on the search.
Then around 2 weeks later I emailed David again to see if he was going down that way again to do a search again and he said no, but the next day he changed his mind and once again gave Stephan a ring to arrange another search.
David told me the beach and water was littered with junk, such as lead fishing sinkers, copper and brass, aluminum cans, bottle tops and much more.
Then just as he was once again to give up on the search, he found the ring! After two weeks of being in the water with numerous big storms coming through, I was just amazed that David found Stephans ring!
All up David spent 8 hours search for Stephans lost wedding ring.
David received a $550 reward for his efforts in finding Stephans wedding ring, which is fantastic!
It was a miraculous find! And thanks for your dedicated help on this David!
If I can’t do the job, I will find someone who can!
Stephan's lost Gold Wedding Ring found!
Metal Detecting Withdrawal Symptoms Fixed! Silver Ring Found!
Rusty Ring? No - It is Silver and Silver does not Rust! Before after Photos Coming Soon!
Over the last week I have not had any time to go out Metal Detecting, due to the Easter Holidays and spending time with my family, so yesterday it was time for me to go out bush to go and find some stuff before I went crazy as I was seriously having withdrawal symptoms!
Winter is not too far away and the days are getting shorter, so I left around 4pm with a couple of hours to spare until darkness, I decided that I would go out to my towns local Lake, Lake Dumbleyung and to some hunting for possible lost rings!
Anyhow I arrived there, covered myself in some insect repellant, because the flies are really bad out there and off I went.
A friend of mine Tony from Sydney Metal Detector Services gave me a few metal detecting tips for when searching in salt water and very mineralized conditions. I have a Minelab Etrac Metal Detector and I set the detector into the settings he gave me and off I went.
The section of the Lake I went to is the old Water Ski Club, at the moment the Lake is near on dry, but very muddy around 50 metres from the shoreline. I just basically detected around the ski boat ramp area and where people would swim when the Lake is full of water. I found the usual lot of pull tabs, and then a old silver coin, I think it is an Australian Six Pence, so obviously that coin had been sitting in the water for over 40 years.
Then I got my self I nice tone, and dug around, the soil was like brick hard clay, and after around 10 minutes of digging around, I found myself a ring!
I have attached the photos of the Ring, I think it is a Silver Ring, as you can see, the ring is very tarnished, which is to be expected with a Silver Ring laying in Salty conditions for a long period of time. And the same goes with the Silver Six Pence I found.
I also went for a bit of a walk on the salty flats, I was amazed to find a beautiful old glass coca cola bottle just laying half buried on the Lake, so I presume that bottle had been there for at least 25 to 30 years or more, it is obviously a bit weather worn, but other wise in excellent condition, no cracks no chips.
I love finding Old Bottles, that is another hobbie of mine. See my Old Bottle Collection
The Old Australian Glass Coca Cola Bottle I found on the Lake bed
As I mentioned above and you can see in the photos I have attached, both the Silver Ring and the Silver Six Pence are very tarnished, so much so, that you would not know they are silver.
So I have decided to do another Coin Cleaning and Silver Ring Cleaning experiment.
Currently I have both the coin and the ring, soaking in an ice cream container, which I covered the bottom with some foil, placed the ring and the coin on top of the foil, then put around 4 big table spoons of Bicarbonate Soda on top of the ring and the coin. Then I covered the ring and the coin in about 2 litres of boiling hot water.
I will let that soak for 24 hours, then I am going to clean them up in my Lortone Tumbler using some very fine tumbling grit and watch the tumbling very closely so I do not do any damage to the ring and especially the coin, which could be of value.
My Lortone Coin - Rock and Jewellery Tumblers
So I will keep you up to date and post some before and after cleaning photos of the Silver Coin and Silver Ring.
Anyhow, It was great to get out for a couple of hours yesterday, there is nothing better that going metal detecting, it always clears the mind and makes you feel great.
Tarnished Silver Sixpence - You can just see King Edward VII's head! Before - After Cleaning Pics coming soon!
