Have you ever *found* any jewelry? At the park/beach/parking lot/pool/sidewalk..ect..
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I guess the statement "No good deed..." really is true!
I found one diamond stud earring lodged between the seats in our theatre room.. I took it to my jeweler to see if it's a diamond or not.. and turns out it was! Tried to get in touch with the previous owner but they have moved overseas.. so I went back and got it made into a pendant lol
When I was a kid I found a wedding set on the bench of the communal showers/toilets at the beach.. someone must've took them off to wash their hands or something.. huuuge mistake!
I do seem to find money everywhere though! Latest one was $100 note at a music fest, paid for my taxi ride home and midnight snack at McD's for the whole group! lol
When I was a kid I found a wedding set on the bench of the communal showers/toilets at the beach.. someone must've took them off to wash their hands or something.. huuuge mistake!
I do seem to find money everywhere though! Latest one was $100 note at a music fest, paid for my taxi ride home and midnight snack at McD's for the whole group! lol
i havent found any jewelry, but searched endlessly for a 3 carat yellow fancy diamond ring my mom lost. she is heartbroken. bet someone is happy to have that.
oh wait, yeah i found a wedding set at the hospital i work at, and found the owner and returned it.
I have a story about a lost and found ring: 
My dad was in the Air Force and we moved often. When I was about 10, we moved to a new assignment and settled into our house on base. In the bathroom, there was a super ugly mirror/vanity/cupboard that had been installed many years before and it stayed because it was a permanent fixture even though it wasn't "standard issue."
One afternoon, my friends and I were playing softball outside and someone hit the ball pretty hard -- and it went right through the open bathroom window and smashed into that ugly mirror, shattering it. We didn't know it had shattered the mirror until later when I went home and I found it.
I began picking up the pieces thinking I was going to be in such BIG trouble... and then on the floor, in the middle of the broken glass and mirror, there was a diamond and ruby ring!
My parents came home later that night and I told them what happened and showed them the ring. They looked very carefully at the remains of that ugly cabinet and could NOT figure out how the ring was in it. My dad thought that maybe it had been caught on an inside hinge and came loose when the whole thing broke.
They took it to a jeweler and found it it was a platinum antique "scrolled" setting with a diamond a little over 1k. On each side of the center diamond, there were 2 ruby baguettes. Very unique ring. I know they tried to contact previous occupants of the house to find the owner, but that was hard to do with so many families moving in and out. They never found the person who lost it and my mom stuck it in her jewelry box and held onto it.
Fast forward 8 years later: we are at another military base and my parents attend an engagement party for the son of one of their very good friends. Sometime during the party, the hostess mentioned that she had hoped to pass on her original wedding ring to her son for his wife one day but that she had lost it many years earlier. Then mentioned that it was originally HER MIL's ring and that her husband had added ruby baguettes to it (signifying something but I can't remember what). My mom about fell out of her chair when she heard this!
My parents stayed afterwards and asked more questions about the ring. They realized they had found the owner of the ring my mom had kept all this time. My parents were overjoyed to tell them they had found the ring 8 years earlier -- and the couple was overjoyed to have the ring returned to them! It was such a crazy coincidence!
The woman had removed the ring from her finger 20 years earlier when she was pregnant and the ring had become too tight. The ring disappeared after that and they never found it. They kind of thought one of their other sons (ages 2 and 3 at the time) might have picked it up, carried it around and dropped it outside. She was heartbroken at having lost a very sentimental ring...
They DID live in the same house we were in when we found the ring -- they had lived there 12 years earlier. They are the ones that installed the ugly mirror! They couldn't remember if the mirror was installed before or after the ring was lost... and we never knew for SURE that the ring was in the cabinet -- but breaking the cabinet made the ring re-appear.
My parents and they had also been friends for a VERY long time and the lost ring/found ring had never come up in conversation before this. They figured out that they had been stationed at 2 bases together after the ring was lost and another 2 bases after the ring was found. Always socialized with each other when stationed together, too.
The ring was finally returned to the owner -- and both couples told that story for many years after that! It was truly an amazing story and almost beyond being just a coincidence... I always loved hearing it!
My dad was in the Air Force and we moved often. When I was about 10, we moved to a new assignment and settled into our house on base. In the bathroom, there was a super ugly mirror/vanity/cupboard that had been installed many years before and it stayed because it was a permanent fixture even though it wasn't "standard issue."
One afternoon, my friends and I were playing softball outside and someone hit the ball pretty hard -- and it went right through the open bathroom window and smashed into that ugly mirror, shattering it. We didn't know it had shattered the mirror until later when I went home and I found it.
I began picking up the pieces thinking I was going to be in such BIG trouble... and then on the floor, in the middle of the broken glass and mirror, there was a diamond and ruby ring!
My parents came home later that night and I told them what happened and showed them the ring. They looked very carefully at the remains of that ugly cabinet and could NOT figure out how the ring was in it. My dad thought that maybe it had been caught on an inside hinge and came loose when the whole thing broke.
They took it to a jeweler and found it it was a platinum antique "scrolled" setting with a diamond a little over 1k. On each side of the center diamond, there were 2 ruby baguettes. Very unique ring. I know they tried to contact previous occupants of the house to find the owner, but that was hard to do with so many families moving in and out. They never found the person who lost it and my mom stuck it in her jewelry box and held onto it.
Fast forward 8 years later: we are at another military base and my parents attend an engagement party for the son of one of their very good friends. Sometime during the party, the hostess mentioned that she had hoped to pass on her original wedding ring to her son for his wife one day but that she had lost it many years earlier. Then mentioned that it was originally HER MIL's ring and that her husband had added ruby baguettes to it (signifying something but I can't remember what). My mom about fell out of her chair when she heard this!
My parents stayed afterwards and asked more questions about the ring. They realized they had found the owner of the ring my mom had kept all this time. My parents were overjoyed to tell them they had found the ring 8 years earlier -- and the couple was overjoyed to have the ring returned to them! It was such a crazy coincidence!
The woman had removed the ring from her finger 20 years earlier when she was pregnant and the ring had become too tight. The ring disappeared after that and they never found it. They kind of thought one of their other sons (ages 2 and 3 at the time) might have picked it up, carried it around and dropped it outside. She was heartbroken at having lost a very sentimental ring...
They DID live in the same house we were in when we found the ring -- they had lived there 12 years earlier. They are the ones that installed the ugly mirror! They couldn't remember if the mirror was installed before or after the ring was lost... and we never knew for SURE that the ring was in the cabinet -- but breaking the cabinet made the ring re-appear.
My parents and they had also been friends for a VERY long time and the lost ring/found ring had never come up in conversation before this. They figured out that they had been stationed at 2 bases together after the ring was lost and another 2 bases after the ring was found. Always socialized with each other when stationed together, too.
The ring was finally returned to the owner -- and both couples told that story for many years after that! It was truly an amazing story and almost beyond being just a coincidence... I always loved hearing it!
That is one of the coolest "lost and found" stories I have EVER read!!!
I live on post right now, makes me wonder if there's anything under the sink! LOL!
Thank you so much for sharing!
Everyone! Thank you!!!!
I live on post right now, makes me wonder if there's anything under the sink! LOL!
Thank you so much for sharing!
Everyone! Thank you!!!!
When I was younger my grandma lost her 3ct diamond solitaire and I found it. I've always loved that ring and hope that one day it goes to me (ideally while my grandma is still alive... I want her to live forever). My grandma jokes that I think it's going to me just because I gave it back, but honestly, it will probably go to my younger cousin. My mom also lost her diamond eternity band and I found it.
I should add that I found neither ring at home.
I should add that I found neither ring at home.
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Wildflower that is the coolest lost and found story I think I've ever heard!
I've found jewelry in school during my k-12 years but haven't found anything since. I'm not very observant to stuff on the ground tho lol. I've found money on the ground before tho lol
I've found jewelry in school during my k-12 years but haven't found anything since. I'm not very observant to stuff on the ground tho lol. I've found money on the ground before tho lol
This thread is cool but... it makes me sad to think of all the things i've lost...
I lost an 18k yellow gold antique snake bracelet with a ruby serpents head at San Manuel Casino
and
I lost my heart diamond necklace in white gold ;[ at the Versace Fire and ice ball in 1997
if either are found naturally there will be a reward... its worth a shot right???
I lost an 18k yellow gold antique snake bracelet with a ruby serpents head at San Manuel Casino
and
I lost my heart diamond necklace in white gold ;[ at the Versace Fire and ice ball in 1997
if either are found naturally there will be a reward... its worth a shot right???
About 8 years ago, we were at the lake and had docked our boat on one of the "islands". We got out to go to shore and I stepped on a rock. Turned out the rock was a college class ring. I tracked down the owner and returned it. I was so happy to be able to do so!!!