Monthly Archives: July 2018

Made the Paper!

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One of my recent recoveries in Long Beach Township, on Long Beach Island, made the local paper. The SandPaper published an article that was written by Jeanette, who had lost her rings and I was able to find them for her. You can see the article here: SandPaper.net

This is what Jeanette wrote:

Life Lesson #63: Never wear jewelry to the beach.
Life Lesson #64: If you do, never take it off to apply suntan lotion.

And so it happened…

A beautiful, relaxing summer afternoon at the beach turned into the loss of my Cartier Trinity ring. I had ignored those two life lessons, got distracted and now I was in a frantic search for my previous wedding band that had disappeared into the sand. We traced my steps, sifted through piles of sand…all no to avail.

Early the next morning while again combing the beach, I met a fisherman who told me about Dave, the Metal Detecting Man. He said he had great results. I contacted him and told him my tale of woe. Dave, who lives at least an hour from Long Beach Island, promised he would do his best, but it would take some time.

On a rainy Saturday morning I got a call from Dave. He had recovered my ring! My precious ring is back on my finger again.We need more Daves in this world. He took the time to help a stranger in need…a life lesson in itself. He exemplified How To Live.

I am not the only lucky one that has been helped. Dave has been doing this for many years and has a treasure chest full of heart warming stories to share. People like Dave should be highlighted and celebrated. Thank you Dave, the Metal Detecting Man.

Jeanette

To read my side of the story look on my recoveries page or click this sentence.

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Unsuccessful Recovery

General Metal Detecting

I went to the beach this morning to search for a missing wedding set. They were lost on July 4th. Someone else had already looked for them. I search the beach that they had set camp on for 3.5 hours. They had also traveled 2 blocks south to meet up with friends. The rings were in the pictures taken on the other beach. Later in the day, she noticed them missing. I search the other beach for about 1.5 hours.

I don’t think that they are on the original beach. I did a very fine grid, to the point 2 people came up to me saying you are very thorough, you must be looking for something important. They had never seen such a large area with the scoop trails.

My guess is that either she lost them on the 2 block walk back to camp, or someone else has found them. Not every search is successful. Hopefully, they will think of somewhere else they stopped and I can search that area.

I did find part of a silver ring from the UNCAS Manufacturing Co. After some research, I discovered that they make fine jewelry for Disney, Sea World, and Coca-Cola. To bad that the ring was in the salt water for so long, I would have liked to has seen the design.

Remember to give me a call if you have lost something metal in Southern New Jersey, the Jersey Shore, Southeastern Pennsylvania, or Northern Delaware. Have a GREAT day everyone.

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Lost Class Ring

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Last week I received a call asking if I could search for a lost class ring. Bill thinks that he lost it in his front yard. I started to ask the normal questions like: What were you doing? Is it in grass, dirt, water? And so on.

Bill stated that he was shoveling snow, ok it is summer now. He said the ring was new and it was bothering him while shoveling. So he took it off and put it in his pocket. He forgot about it and noticed 2 days later that the ring was gone.  He was reading stories about “Ring Finders”, did a search and found me.

Here is the kicker, IT WAS LOST IN THE 1960’s. 50+ years ago. I told him I would be over later in the day to look. It was a small yard. I grid searched in one direction. No luck. Searched in the other direction. The ring is not there. Bill was happy that I looked but disappointed that I didn’t find it. If I did it would have made one heck of a story…

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