I thought I was seeing fireworks, but then ***update~it's REAL***

I realized it was the ruby's red glare, the diamonds bursting in air...


What a long weekend I am exhausted, but had the best time ever.
Every day/night I was hitting the water at one place or another, it was the life.
I got so many toy cars, some are pictured some are not because at one point my pouch got so heavy that I gave 4 of them away to kids as I made my way down the beach. Not all of the clad is pictured, but it was around $8. I found a couple earrings and a silver necklace. I also found a ring of keys one night the fob was toast but it had a few important looking keys on it as well. I found it infront of a hotel, so I took them up and left them on the steps, incase someone was looking for them.  My big find that still has me grinning is the 14k ruby ring. It will have to go to an appraiser for final verification, but I found one like it on line with a price tag of $3700

Now we all have our list of things we want to find, I now have to start a list of things I hope I never find or never find again. Below pictured is a cremation tag. I wasn't sure what to do with it, but did not want to leave it there because it is metal and does not belong on the beach, and most likely would end up in the trash somewhere. So I mailed it back to the crematory. No part of the urn was found just the tag..THANK GOD!

Congrats on a wonderful hunt. I've dug several toy cars, some of them old. I've never found a ruby, but nothing is impossible.

Ya done well las, but alas, the details on the other morsels would be nice tu know, savvy?

details??? what details??? someone lost it and I found it I spent most of the time hunting the island around bob hall pier.

Not location, but was wondering about the other rings you found?

One of them is a gold plated band(had me fooled until I got home),  one of them is a cute sea turtle ring the stone changes color, then there is a little enamel coated ring that is beige that says friends, and another enamel coated ring that has little designs.

[From another forum a while back LOL]

From another forum a while back LOL

(floridabill) I am not superstitious,  however they say if you keep that tag and not return it to the sea its bad Karma.  I have found a lot of those and when I do I wing them back out as far as I can in the water.

The very first one I found last year I threw back into the water and the next target I got I pulled that blue sapphire ring worth $2500.00 out.

It is when the family take the ashes and spread them at sea, I believe the tag is in with the ashes to make sure they don't get them mixed up, and when they dump the ashes they don't realize  the tag is in there and it goes in the water.

So if I were you superstitious or not,  the tag is no good so I would return it to its resting place and who knows what your next target may be after that   

I took the crematory token back over to the beach today.  I borrowed a buddy's hunting slingshot for the launch.  I walked out into the water, said a small prayer and shot the crematory ID token, paperclip and bit of charred paper out past the breakers where hopefully, it will "rest in peace".

While I was at the beach, I decided to hunt a bit, so I went up to SunSplash Park.  I hunted for about 2 hours.  The sun was hot, the tide was high and there was a pretty stiff breeze blowing the sand around, so I decided to pack it in with a meager 7 coins in my pouch.

I went up to the beach shower and rinsed off my scoop and coil, and started to walk up the ramp to the van.  For some reason, I stopped, went BACK down on the beach and walked up to the OTHER ramp.  Between the two ramps, I hit ONE signal.  A really nice .925 ring with a pink center stone and two clear side stones.

I cannot explain why, with a rinsed off scoop and detector I decided to go BACK into the sand and go up a ramp that was FARTHER from the van then the one I was going up.  If I hadn't done that, I wouldn't have found the ring.  I'm callin' it a "Florida Bill" experience and lettin' it go at that.  Whatever the reason, I am now a believer !!!

And you can bet, if I ever find another one of those things, it's goin' right back into the water !!!!

Thanks for lookin'.  Da FoX

(fox) I took the medallion back to the beach and shot it into the water beyond the breakers where hopefully it will remain.  My last find of the day was a nice silver ring with 3 stones.  See my post in Today's Finds.  I'm a believer !!! 

You guys may be onto something.  That Crematory ID must be a curse !!!      Definately bad karma !!! 

I hit 3 totlots today with the M6 / 6X10"DD and got 38 coins.  4Q 4N 8D 22P = $2.22 ...  I have never worked so hard for a coupla bucks in clad !!!  The way I was pullin' trash, you'd think I had never had a detector in my hand !!!  The kicker was while I was in a nice stand of old trees, a stroke of lightening cracked so close that you could hear the "click" in the headset !!!  I called it a day and went to the van.

I rained hard all the way home, up to within 1/2 mile of my house, where it stopped.  I can see the rain from where I live, but we're not gettin' a drop !!!   

The crematory ID is outta here by the weekend, one way or another.   

[OMG, that is one beautiful ring! WOW]

OMG, that is one beautiful ring!  WOW  I can't wait to hear what it appraises at.  The creamatorium tag stories are spooky!  I think that will go at the top of my..... no second on the list of things I do NOT want to find.  First being a really beautiful ring but with a finger through it!  LOL  WTG TXKICKERGIRL!

girl you are on a roll!

Ohhhhhh Yeahhhhh Dawn!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WTG!!!!

that is a beauty!! I'd be wearing that for sure! congrats

I debated back and forth for a while on what to do with the tag.  When I pulled it out of the scoop that was the last thing I expected, and then when it hit what it was I had to peek back in the scoop to make sure there was no pottery type stuff that would be the urn itself. You can not imagine how relieved I was. So there I stood waiting for the fireworks to start, the beach packed with people, and I am holding this tag going, ahhh what the heck do I do. Then something kept telling me I needed to keep it and send it back to the crematory. Trust me I would of just assumed to drop it back where I got it and forget it. Who knows maybe they will forward it back to the family, and the family will see it as a sign that their loved one reached out to them. That was the first thing I found that night, and trust me I half expected through out the night to hear some voice coming from my pouch, saying hey you, yeah you, the one that dug me up....
I am ok with bringing it home and sending it back. Now if I ever do.....please please please do not let me find another one of those, then I will have to see how I feel at the time.

thats a pretty one!

Congrats for this beauty.

Great finds! Keep scoopin'!

ruby's red glare, the diamonds bursting in air

U got that right.......my god what a fine looking piece of loot that is.

what was your heart doing when u saw that baby?

very nice spin for sure

good luck on your next spin

NICE   sweet ruby   WTG   Guzz

That is an awesome ring!! My wife is still waiting for me to find one like it! lol

Darrell

 put me back!!! --- I wouldn't keep it thats for sure. -- it belongs with the body consigned to the deep. -- however its yours to deal with now so you decide . 

I ran by Zales at lunch and asked them to take a look at the ring. They said...oh yeah its real and very nice, infact the ruby alone which is 2ct is well over 2k and that I should find someone to appraise it, they didn't do that kind of thing there. So I will have to look into getting a written appraisal later, if I decide to sell it.

What did the Ruby say to the diamond?
You're so clear you make me blush!

What a Great Ruby, Way to go 

Dawn,

What a great eye you have,
Love the thing , sitting in the cactus flower like that.
Just enough to make you see the real treasure of the flower as well.
Nice enhancement.
You Go Girl !

I love the blooms on cactus, every year I seem to find myself taking pictures of them at my dads. The color is always so sharp and pure. It reminds a person to slow down a bit, and appreicate God's artwork.

That's one beautiful ring ~ CONGRATS!!  What a lovely way to show the ruby with the cactus flower

  RR

Very nice job on the gold ring!

I ran by Zales at lunch and asked them to take a look at the ring. They said...oh yeah its real and very nice, infact the ruby alone which is 2ct is well over 2k and that I should find someone to appraise it, they didn't do that kind of thing there. So I will have to look into getting a written appraisal later, if I decide to sell it.

did I read this right? the Ruby by it's self is worth over 2 thousand? Wow that is a super find!!!

congrats on the banner well deserved

 did I read this right? the Ruby by it's self is worth over 2 thousand? Wow that is a super find!!!
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yep you read it right Its also my birthstone

congrats on the banner well deserved

Thank You Thank You...its my first solo banner find!

A year ago we(my brother and I) made the banner for a relic hunt we did, we had bullets, pottery, etc, and my brother found a Taft cufflink we assume was lost by Taft, because his brother owned the land at one time, and it was well documented that Pres. Taft had camped there during his presidency and fished. He also found a really old ring with the stone missing. So the banner was really my brothers glory that time because outside of a few pieces of broken glass and bullets nothing special was mine.

nice ring!!!!  nice pic of it with the cactus flower too... interesting about the tag. i don't know if i would ever want to find one of those, but i know i dont want to find dentures or a "grill"  that would just be gross and creepy 

TX,
What a beautiful find to grace the banner. It really brightens things up there. 
Congrats on an amazing find. That ring is a real BEAUTY!!!
-MM-

WOW!  beautiful find, congratulations        that sure does look very nice up there on the banner

You earned it . Nice work , i mean play

Congratulations on a GREAT find!!!

Oh, TX, that is so pretty... congratulations!  Nice find!

As far as the tag goes, just look at it as finding a tombstone.  You found something one-of-a-kind that no one else will ever find.  It was particular to that person.  Looks kinda like a dogtag.  Research the person and meet them first-hand.  Return the tag to either the mortuary or their family.  I'm sure it floated many miles away from the ashes. 

Congrats, again!!! - Noodle

[Way To Go Dawn great FindDave]

Way To Go Dawn great Find


Dave

WOW    congrats   

Dawn,

Hold on to the ruby,
They won't get cheaper down the road.
That's money in the bank.

Great finds and I love the ring in the flower pic, it sets it off great!  
 The tag someone was probably scattered at sea, but I am glad you found it.  

I can't wait for the chance to beach hunt!

And CONGRATS on the banner! 

You got yourself a real treasure there, way to go!!
Anthony

That ring sure does make that banner look pretty! 

YOWZAAAAAAAA!
yum    yum    LOVE those rubies!
WTG, Dawn  
Major congrats on that ring!
Looks awesome on the banner!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats on a beauty of a ring, txkickergirl! Banner, too!

HH

I have almost the exact same ring. 10K with a large ruby.

WOW!!!
Beautiful!
Congrats!!!

[OUTSTANDING!!!]

Then something kept telling me I needed to keep it and send it back to the crematory. Trust me I would of just assumed to drop it back where I got it and forget it. Who knows maybe they will forward it back to the family, and the family will see it as a sign that their loved one reached out to them.

I think you made the right call on that one, TXKG!!!  Nice job!

And for the finds?     OUTSTANDING!!!  

Congrats on that great ring and on making the banner!

That is one awesome ring.

Congrats on making banner!
You deserve it.

GG~

thanks everyone for your congratulations and advice on the tag. I did mail it back to the cremation place, now sure what they will do with it but it just seemed right. There are many things out there that I have found and still want to find. That was not among them. Yet I also had to take it as a sign. You see, my mother was cremated, and my dad will be too, and it is their wishes the ashes be mixed and scattered together. Sounds romantic, but to be honest part of it creeps me out. I hear stories of how bits of bone and things are still in it and how unlike the movies ashes don't float away on the wind, its more course and heavy like grainy sand. So finding the tag was one more way of me coming to terms with what must one day be done. I had no ideal about the tags, and probably would freak out had we been scattering ashes and metal tags hit the ground. Now I know to expect it and won't have that unpleasant surprise.
Has any one here dealt with scattering ashes on land? If so what is your advice or suggestions?

 

WTG!!!!  Thats one sweeeeeeeeet find!

HH

Congrats on a GREAT FIND! That sure is a beautiful ring. 

As far as that tag is concerned I agree with what you did.

My mother-in-law passed away earlier this year and my wife and her brother wanted to scatter her ashes in the ocean. My father-in-law doesn't want to open the box (he didn't want to buy an urn). The box says: "Do Not Open" and he's just complying with that, he says. Weird...but his wishes come before the kids'. 

HH Joe

I have been to about 4 services where the person was cremated  3 they buried the box and 1 I don't know what they did with it afterward !  My husbands aunt and uncle are doing it nd saving big, it is cheaper and they can be buried in ! plot instead on getting 2 plots!  1 that was buried was humongus it was at least 3' tall and 2' square, his dad had a hard time carrying it.

AWESOME FIND.....congrats on the banner.
as far as scattering ashes' i was told once that your no longer allowed to do that without some sort of permission from the EPA.....something about human ashes contain many toxins and heavy metals which are harmful to the environment. i do know alot of people who are now being cremated instead of buried and ashes can be buried at the feet of an existing grave of a loved one for a nominal fee. and if you are Catholic, you too can now be cremated and buried in Holy ground as they no longer view cremation as a sin.(go figure)

You can scatter ashes as long as you get a permit and permission if public land, on private land you do not need any of these things.  At sea it has to be 3 miles out and registered with EPA and the coord. logged. You can also do a full body burial at sea but  you have to be alot further out and in like 600ft of water. That was interesting because I didn't realize you could send a body into the deep blue, surely it has to be in a casket still, because wouldn't it float? With the cost of funerals so high now its crazy. Pre planning is important, because if the person is deceased the cost doubles. When my brother buried his son, they went down the day before he passed away and made the arrangements. They felt bad planning a funeral before he was gone, but the cost was over $8000.00, had they waited they were told the cost would be closer to $16000.00 because it fell under "in need".(I have my thoughts on that..its called taking advantage of grieving people and price gouging)  Cremation here runs around $800-$1500 so I can see why so many people are opting for cremation now a days. I certainly don't want my loved ones having to cough up even $8000, on me, nor do I want to preplan and spend that amount of money either. So given the choice I probably will pre plan and go for cremation. Then they can just dig a hole and bury the box under the oak tree say a few words and be done with it. Simple, cheap, and respectable. No fancy casket, in a funeral home, with a person that didn't even know me, talking about my life. Of course I expect my friends from time to time to drop in and run the detector under the tree, and pick up that metal tag, and they can say, yep..she's still there, just checking. LOL

i have awhile back decided i wanted to be cremated ... 1.   Its cheaper   2.   i will probably be all used up, so I would rather my loved ones think back to a earlier age of my life when I wasn't soooo used up! 



They used to bury sailors at see watch old documentries they could not keep them on board ships or subs for monthes at a time no place to store them thus ... over the side.

I just knew you would end up on the banner some day.
Perseverance pays off for the Texas girl.
Nice job!!!! Really nice!

 
 Lots of glitter and sparkle. Way to go !!

A big congratz TKG for the awesome ring find and making the banner (it sure adds some Pzzaazz to the banner for sure) ... great job and continued good hunting!

After being added to the banner I have some additional motivation to get back out there and find some more goodies. I leave on vacation tomorrow and will have 5 days of relaxing, camping, and detecting. I may swing over to the tourist side of the beach a day or two to search for jewelry, but this trip is mainly for the relics, I will probably come home with a 5gallon bucket of fishing weights. Wonder if they will put me on the banner for 5gallons of weights? lol, I would if someone could drag that much home and their wife/husband didn't kill them.

[God bless our veterans! Thank you for your sacrifices!]

Has any one here dealt with scattering ashes on land? If so what is your advice or suggestions?

Scattered my mother-in-law.

For mom & dad, find a secluded spot that has or would have special meaning to them.  That way, you could go back there to reflect or plant a flower.  If you don't go back, at least you'll know that you put them in a special place together.  Of course, respect the property of others, as I'm sure you would.  Cremains can be and usually are pulverized for the spreading.  You might have to ask for this to be done.  No, they still won't fly away, and will vary in size in the container from dust like to sand like consistency (at least hers did).

Very Cooooooooollllllll !!!!!!!!!  Your 4th of July red sparkler made the BANNER!!  

Too friggiin cool. It could not have happened to a better person.

Dawn......Great ring and other goodies and a huge congrats on your banner!! Girls gotta represent!!!! 

HH,
Moon

Congrats on the ring, it's a beauty!

For ashes, here's what I know:  My grandfather was cremated, and his ashes contained bits of bone, maybe an inch long, and were very coarse.  It's all dry, but heavy, and didn't blow around.  He came back in a plastic bag in a cardboard box.  My uncle had built a wood box for him, but it didn't all fit, so my grandmother kept the rest.  Several years later, I began building wooden 'urns' for a local funeral home.  With me charging more than I could have for anything else and the funeral director doubling the price, they were still less than half what any comercialy available one went for.  I told him of the problem with my grandfather, and he explained that some places leave them in chunks, and other places crush them to fine ashes.  The crematory he used, crushed them down, and they were delivered back in a plastic bag, inside of a nice black heavy plastic snap lid container.  I just built the urns with an interior volume the same as the plastic box, so they could be taken out of the box, and slipped into the wood urn.  When my grandmother died, I made her urn.  She was buried, but the hole was only several feet deep, enough to accomodate a small 24 inch cube concrete vault, which sat just under the surface. When the time came, we actually set the urn right in the vault.  I've since made an urn for one of my uncle's to house his wife, and made it from the wood of a tree that they had cut in their yard. Oh, I had also made verteran's urns which were a long box for the ashes which acted as a base for a triangular flag case.  So some of my wood work is buried, and some sits in people's houses, but either way, they were able to choose a nice hand made piece that could be customized as they wanted, and pay much less than what is available.  I'm told the real money is in pet urns...  Anyway, the ashes may be fine or coarse depending on the crematory procedure, but a quick call to the funeral director will tell you exactly what to expect.

Here's hoping you find more toe rings, and fewer toe tags

that blue ring looks familiar, i got one of those when i was a kid in china town in San Fransisco, i think it is sterling with porcelain on the inside of the band. awesome finds!!!       

Chaz,
thanks for the info. My mom came back in a black box, and we had gotten a nice urn off of ebay,(hundreds less than what a funeral home charged) that when we went to picked her up from the funeral home, they were kind enough to transfer her ashes over to the urn.  I do remember them saying something about the crushing thing, but wasn't sure how crushed it would be. Maybe instead of scattering I will just have the ashes mixed and then bury them under the old tree.

okay ...now it's time for you to post a CLOSE UP of that gorgeous ring for all of us to view in it's beauty and splendor !!!! 


Rockyredbaron

HH to all

as per request here is a close up of the ring

It sure is a stunner.  Congrats.

wow, that's a nice ring..my wife would rip that from my hand instantly
and send me back out looking for more..   GJ

  WOW, That's a beautiful ring, Dawn!!!  Had to be a happy dance going on when ya found that one!!!  Way to go!!!!

                                   Nana

nana I am still doing the happy dance

my hubby is a cheapskate, but had he given me a ring like that and I lost it, I can promise I would still be out there to this day looking for it, because he wouldn't let me back in the house.

Nuthin better than gold in the scoop. 

Ahhh...now that is a sweet ring.....but I wish I could have seen Kevins face when you showed it to him...LOL...THAT...would have been priceless! 
Greed...envy...mad...etc etc LOL 

COOL

Way to go on the great ring!!

I knew it was Texas as soon as I saw the last pic, heh.  Good stuff, man!

Wow,  You did very well . WTG Thats what it's all about 

Great ring..It is nice to see some good finds...Not much these days because of the cold I think...

WTG, Very Nice,  "Have a Great Day and Year" 

Dawn,
This is one of the threads I keep coming back to.

Thanks for the follow through. You have bumped yourself into the top ten of my all time favorites.
just because you followed through.

So many times the subject is posted, and then forgotten.
Please accept my thanks for following through.


PS. Hope you and Dad are better.

Thom

Dawn,
This is one of the threads I keep coming back to.

Thanks for the follow through. You have bumped yourself into the top ten of my all time favorites.
just because you followed through.

So many times the subject is posted, and then forgotten.
Please accept my thanks for following through.


PS. Hope you and Dad are better.

Thom

Aren't you sweet. I know I should sell the ring, but its just so pretty!

One of them is a gold plated band(had me fooled until I got home),  one of them is a cute sea turtle ring the stone changes color, then there is a little enamel coated ring that is beige that says friends, and another enamel coated ring that has little designs.

alexandrite? One of my favorites and highly underated

Call me crazy, but I thought it was cool in a macabre way to find the crematory tag that I found during Christmas. Hogwash on the Karma/Luck thing. Half hour after I found it, I found a silver locket and then a large silver men's ring. Kept my tag. They'll just wash up on the beach again and someone else will find it.

Beautiful ring from the summer!!!!

[I kept my crematory tag.]

I kept my crematory tag.

 

That is an AWESOME find, I can only hope to find something like that one day. Congrats on the ring and making the banner...
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

Yes, again, beautiful ring posted over one year ago.   

That is such a beautiful ring, very nice find indeed... But I have to wonder about their comment that the ruby alone is worth $2k.... Where did they get that from???
Are you going to have it appraised by a Gemologist? Hope so, would love to know what that ring is worth...

Nice!!!

The red sapphire or ruby is the most valuable of the corundum family, and when found of a good color, pure and brilliant, and in sizes of one carat and larger, it is much more valuable than a fine diamond of the same size.

Rubies and Sapphires are scientifically the same stone, differing only in color. Corundum, the predominating mineral of both, is composed of nearly pure alumina. The coloring substance, which differentiates rubies and sapphires, is believed to be chromium. In the scale of hardness the gem ranks as No. 9

No.9? Sounds like a good nickname for a corundum hunter!

I found a box of someones ashes the otherday at a old mine and it gave me a very bad vibe

I dont think I could part with that knock out ring and to top it all off. your birthstone too.. thats so dang pretty... and super congrats on banner too..  excellent find..  I give you tons of credit for water hunting..as its so hard to get down pat ( in my book that is..lol )