Half A Silver Ring Anyway

[F350Platinum]

Got out day before yesterday early morning. A beach hunt totally skunked me, I've been keeping that small local beach clean. 🤣

Decided to hit this place that is incredibly trashy to see if I could find anything. There was a house here from recorded history (1917 topo) to about 2014. The last renters were rough on the place, the property owner evicted them and knocked the house down.

I used historic aerials to get an idea of the area the house covered, looks like they had a shed and carport too:

This is the spot now that would be facing the house.

Tree on the left has a swing on it, about a year ago I dug a lot of older modern coins (no silver) and some interesting relics here.

It was an incredibly humid and hot morning so I only spent a couple hours here, the grass cuttings were sticking to my shoes making snowshoes that were difficult to remove 😀

The last people here were very fond of alcohol apparently, the spot is loaded with aluminum bottle caps and other assorted junk. Lots of aluminum cans. I brought the Deus 2 with me as it does a great job ignoring iron, there is a lot of that here too. I used the XY screen in a modified General program, disc at 10. Listening to the tones and watching the graphic was very helpful but I still dug a lot of junk:

The large nickel plated brass ring for example was a solid 93. 😀

Ended up with 5 3/4 pennies, 4 Zincolns and 2 copper memorials, oldest was 1974. I had found a bunch of wheats here last year but more modern coins. It's possible that this spot was cherry picked for silver.

I searched around where the tree swing was again, and amid a lot of aluminum tones I got a faint but repeatable 91. Dug down about 6-8", and got half a sterling Fede Gimmel ring. Yay. It's the half that doesn't have the sterling Hallmark.

This is the second of this kind of ring I've found hunting yards in this area, got a whole one last year which I am giving to the landowner with some other relics in a 3x5" Riker box.

These date from the 1920's to the 40's, (before "925") maybe from a local jewelry store long gone. They have a pin holding them together and can be separated to share.

Here's an interesting link about these:

https://www.jewelryshoppingguide.com/gimmel-rings-guide/

Pretty scant hunt but at least I got silver. 😀 There ya go NC! 🤣

 

[CPT_GhostLight]

Congrats on the silver ring! What a cool design, I've never heard of those rings before. Well done!

[kac]

Cool ring. Nice to see how that was originally crafted in wax, might be a one of a kind. Great find.

[F350Platinum]

35 minutes ago, CPT_GhostLight said:

Congrats on the silver ring! What a cool design, I've never heard of those rings before. Well done!

Thanks Cap'n. 🙂 It's a thin, small target that a lot of detectors would probably miss in all that junk. Shows the capability of the D2 IMHO.

This isn't much of a hunt, but at least there is something of interest. 🤣 Just so @NCtoad doesn't feel alone. 😁 I'm glad to see he braved the heat a few times. 🏆

[F350Platinum]

23 minutes ago, kac said:

Cool ring. Nice to see how that was originally crafted in wax, might be a one of a kind. Great find.

Well it's one half of two of a kind anyway. 😀 I defer to your assessment of its manufacture! 👍

[NCtoad]

39 minutes ago, F350Platinum said:

Thanks Cap'n. 🙂 It's a thin, small target that a lot of detectors would probably miss in all that junk. Shows the capability of the D2 IMHO.

This isn't much of a hunt, but at least there is something of interest. 🤣 Just so @NCtoad doesn't feel alone. 😁 I'm glad to see he braved the heat a few times. 🏆

A unique silver ring is much, much better than a 1939 merc!   Lol!

[rvpopeye]

You beat me to my post !   But I'll post it anyway.....

Interesting ring !🖖

[Rick N. MI]

I like the silver ring!

[Joe D.]

 Fun stuff Bob,

  Alot to be said about the "little" finds! Sometimes, it's just the right amount or item, to keep your interest! Until the next one!! I'm guessing, not unlike those "dink" gold nuggets that you prospectors on here, find and post! Different quarry we may have, but same excitement for all, and still worth a read!!🍀👍👍

[Valens Legacy]

Nice find on the ring, but the NOX would have found the whole ring.

Good luck on your next hunt and just remember that the NOX has cursed you for leaving her at home.