Anyone Find Many Class Rings?
Q: Anyone finding many class rings? Particularly the college ones that
are worth more? Those things bring good prices - like $50 to $500 each
- on eBay!
A:Returning an item of possibly great sentimental value to the person who lost
it, thereby bringing more goodwill upon the detecting community and possibly
being given permission to hunt the private property of friends and relations
of that person: ---- Priceless.
http://www.uiaa.org/urbana/illinoisalumni/utxt0402g.html
http://www.treasurenet.com/westeast/200102/feature/
http://www.northcountynews.com/archives_2003/1-8-03/topstory.htm
http://www.windsortribune.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=650
Many of these things AREN'T inscribed - or in any way traceable to
whoever lost them. I know this because my late father's class ring -
which I just sold on eBay for $100 - wasn't. It being from his
grad-school years, it didn't even have any frat letters on it - and it
was something from a graduate of a huge state university with many
alumni and students undoubtably losing all kinds of stuff monthly, so
there was no mailing it to the university in any way that they'd
identify its owner had I found it on some beach instead of upstairs!
Don't assume that class rings are even identifiable as to who owned
them - much less that the person can be found - until you check each
such ring.
If a ring can be researched and the owner reliably identified and still
living, I'm all for returning the ring. That includes wedding rings,
diamond watches