September 6th, 2009 by Brad Lovell

Robin called me last week requesting my services. He had lost his gold signet ring while shaking water off his hands. Robin was standing on a balcony when the ring flew off in the direction of the garden below. Interesting enough, Robin did not hear the ring land which worried me. Anyway, I started searching the garden area where the ring most likely dropped. After covering the area 3 times, I was beginning to think that perhaps the ring had gone over the neighbours fence. Before knocking on the neighbour’s door, I decided to start metal detecting the trees in the garden. My good friend Tony from Jewellery Rescue had a situation where he found a ring in a tree (read story here) so I figured it wouldn’t hurt to give it a try. After scanning most of the trees, I came to the last one. About half way up the trunk of the tree, I was receiving a strong signal. I thought that maybe there was a piece of wire in the tree. I began to investigate the area and spotted a glimpse of gold. Robin had flicked the ring off his finger so hard that it lodged inside the tree. Robin mentioned to me before I started the search to let him know exactly where I found the ring, as he had spent 2 hours searching for it. I called him out to see exactly where the ring had landed. We we’re both amazed yet happy the ring was no longer lost.