{"id":1350,"date":"2020-09-06T10:50:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T14:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metaldetectingman.me\/?page_id=1350"},"modified":"2023-05-19T08:50:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T12:50:30","slug":"not-the-right-ring","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.metaldetectingman.me\/the-metal-detecting-man\/successful-recoveries\/wilton-ct\/not-the-right-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Not The Right Ring!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Samantha emailed me, asking if I could help find her father’s ring he lost 2 summers ago. They are getting ready to move soon. I asked her where they were located, and she said Connecticut. Hmmm, that’s kind of far, but after hearing the story, I told myself this one is for me.<\/p>\n

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Her dad retired from the NY City Fire Department in 1969 after 9 years on the job. He was seriously injured in the line of duty during a building collapse. He was on Truck 40. The ring he lost is the ring that the NYFD gave him upon retiring. It was his prized possession.<\/div>\n
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I made the 2.5-hour trek on Saturday morning. Samantha showed me a small search area. Ken was trying to clear a blocked small stream to allow the water to drain from their pond. They were on the bank when they heard the ring hit a rock and then heard a splash. They looked and raked the stream with no luck. They have looked on many different occasions.<\/div>\n
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I start detecting, and there is a lot of metal in the area. There is a fence-like structure on the banks under the dirt. There is also a lot of nails in the water. I searched about 30 minutes in the rain when I got a good tone high on the bank. I dig a hole, and Samantha sees gold. Samantha pulled a big gold ring out of the hole. We can’t believe we found it. I said we should surprise him.<\/div>\n
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I packed up my gear, and when Ken got down here, I started asking more questions. I pointed to the area where he told me the splash was. The ring was on my finger. When he saw it, I handed it to him and showed him where we found it. He didn’t show much emotion. He kept talking about a gold ring with the NYFD logo on it and a diamond in the center. This one was not that ring.<\/div>\n
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I asked if this was his ring and he said yes, he didn’t know that he lost this one. So I guess I’m going to continue the search. I got suited up again in hip waders and a raincoat. I looked for 2 more hours and couldn’t find the other ring. I can say with confidence that the other ring is not in this area.<\/div>\n
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I am disappointed that I couldn’t find the ring I came up to find. I wanted to help put a smile on the face of another first responder. But I was able to return another ring.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I love my hobby!<\/div>\n
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Samantha emailed me, asking if I could help find her father’s ring he lost 2 summers ago. They are getting ready to move soon. I asked her where they were located, and she said Connecticut. Hmmm, that’s kind of far, but after hearing the story, I told myself this one is for me. \u00a0 Her … Continue reading Not The Right Ring!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1352,"parent":1348,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[60,71,74,75,61,64,87,65,59,62,85,72,66,63,107,67,69,58,68],"class_list":["post-1350","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-returned-treasure","category-successful-recovery","tag-find-lost-ring-with-metal-detector","tag-how-to-find-a-lost-ring-in-snow","tag-how-to-find-lost-ring-at-beach","tag-how-to-find-ring-lost-in-yard","tag-lost-jewelry","tag-lost-jewelry-recovery-service","tag-lost-keys","tag-lost-ring-camden-county","tag-lost-ring-delaware-county","tag-lost-ring-delaware-valley","tag-lost-ring-doing-yard-work","tag-lost-ring-in-snow","tag-lost-ring-jersey-shore","tag-lost-ring-tri-state-area","tag-lost-ring-wilton-ct","tag-metal-detector-rental","tag-missing-property-marker","tag-rent-metal-detector","tag-the-ring-finders-new-jersey"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pf7HTG-lM","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.metaldetectingman.me\/the-metal-detecting-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.metaldetectingman.me\/the-metal-detecting-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.metaldetectingman.me\/the-metal-detecting-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.metaldetectingman.me\/the-metal-detecting-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.metaldetectingman.me\/the-metal-detecting-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.metaldetectingman.me\/the-metal-detecting-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1357,"href":"http:\/\/www.metaldetectingman.me\/the-metal-detecting-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1350\/revisions\/1357"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.metaldetectingman.me\/the-metal-detecting-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.metaldetectingman.me\/the-metal-detecting-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.metaldetectingman.me\/the-metal-detecting-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.metaldetectingman.me\/the-metal-detecting-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.metaldetectingman.me\/the-metal-detecting-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}