StratTone
Elite Member
So I finally found my first class ring and it had initials in it. I've always planned to try and do a return if I found one with initials and being honest that is easier said than done when you have $250 worth of gold and it being the biggest gold you've found to date. But after finding the guy and having a talk with him yesterday evening I have to admit it is totally worth it. Just hearing his appreciation for it and him telling me he is glad he can not only pass down the ring to his kids (he is 72) but also pass down the story of how it came back to him was well worth more than $250.
I was detecting a place where old off base housing used to be and dug up this 10k '66 class ring that had the high school mascot as the senators on it. With the initials CEP. Eventually I found a Dover High school Senators with a guy named on a class reunion page as not attending named Clifford Polite. Of to facebook I went and there he was a Clifford Polite holding a whisky sitting at the bar. Listed as retired Air Force. I looked up his location and typed his name and it showed a Clifford Edward Polite living at the location he listed. I knew I had the guy. I wrote him not wanting to give away the surprise but it took some time for him to see the message or the idea to reply. After we chatted some on Facebook (I'm sure I sounded like a scam guy) he reluctantly called me last night. When I answered I thanked him for calling and said "So I'm into metal detecting and...…….." He cut me off and says "You found my ring!". lol
Yes sir I did and it will be coming back to you. Turns out he lost it playing with his dog in the back yard of the off base housing and combed the backyard with no luck. The next day he even borrowed a metal detector (back in the 70s) to try and find it and still came up short. This was actually his second class ring. He lost the original in the ocean and had it replaced with the one I found just before the cut off time where they couldn't make it anymore so he thought it was lost forever.
Best part of the conversation was him saying he was glad to not only have the ring back to pass down to his kids but also pass down the story.
I was detecting a place where old off base housing used to be and dug up this 10k '66 class ring that had the high school mascot as the senators on it. With the initials CEP. Eventually I found a Dover High school Senators with a guy named on a class reunion page as not attending named Clifford Polite. Of to facebook I went and there he was a Clifford Polite holding a whisky sitting at the bar. Listed as retired Air Force. I looked up his location and typed his name and it showed a Clifford Edward Polite living at the location he listed. I knew I had the guy. I wrote him not wanting to give away the surprise but it took some time for him to see the message or the idea to reply. After we chatted some on Facebook (I'm sure I sounded like a scam guy) he reluctantly called me last night. When I answered I thanked him for calling and said "So I'm into metal detecting and...…….." He cut me off and says "You found my ring!". lol
Yes sir I did and it will be coming back to you. Turns out he lost it playing with his dog in the back yard of the off base housing and combed the backyard with no luck. The next day he even borrowed a metal detector (back in the 70s) to try and find it and still came up short. This was actually his second class ring. He lost the original in the ocean and had it replaced with the one I found just before the cut off time where they couldn't make it anymore so he thought it was lost forever.
Best part of the conversation was him saying he was glad to not only have the ring back to pass down to his kids but also pass down the story.
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