Scubacat
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Here is the setup. We have a 15 g 10K gold ring found on a Vancouver beach. I could not fit the whole engraving into one photo, sorry. I will appreciate your ideas on the story behind it.
That's easy. I know it's hard to read, but it's in code. Which when translated says : Send this gold ring to Tom_in_CA.
Any other questions ?
"mom & dad 12/25/52"?
This ^ but not sure about the year. 32? Seems obviously to be for dad from a child or children, maybe for a 60th (diamond) anniversary (2012 or 1992). 'C' and 'B' - Charles and Beatrice, Clyde and Bonnie .... let your imagination roam....
It looks like that. But what could the story be? Also, is it GB on the front?
Well you see when a man loves a woman, he buys a ring showing his love to Great Britain. It's a weird old timey tradition
Is it just me or does that look like plating coming off?
No matter what it says what an interesting honker of a find!
Thank you thanks! It is the first time I find a ring with that much history attached. I was hoping to read something like your detailed post. I lack local knowledge to do a decent analysis of all the clues. What I do not quite understand, nearly everybody says it is a gift from child(ren), but the engraving says "Mom & Dad" and it looks like a man's ring to me. I thought it was a gift from "Mom & Dad" to their son.I agree that it looks like a sort of monogram ring with the parents' initials - perhaps a gift from the child(ren). I do not think that the first letter is a G, as it clearly resembles the C's that you sometimes see in a cursive or calligraphy script. I think it's reads:
"CB" "Mom & Dad 12'25'52"
It looks to me like C and B were wed (or enjoyed a milestone anniversary) on Christmas Day of 1952! The one dilemma with this conclusion is that the two 5's do not appear to be identical, but it's possible that the ring is hand-engraved, which would solve that problem. I wondered if the first numeral of the year was a 3 (as someone has suggested), but notice how each part of the date is separated by an apostrophe. So the portion that makes the numeral resemble a 3 is actually an apostrophe, I believe.
Those are my thoughts on the ring. Great find!
I'm glad that my thoughts may be helpful to you! I'm not really experienced in identifying rings, but it definitely helps to put heads together - and that's what this forum is for!Thank you thanks! It is the first time I find a ring with that much history attached. I was hoping to read something like your detailed post. I lack local knowledge to do a decent analysis of all the clues. What I do not quite understand, nearly everybody says it is a gift from child(ren), but the engraving says "Mom & Dad" and it looks like a man's ring to me. I thought it was a gift from "Mom & Dad" to their son.