Paul was called to a Jewellery Rescue metal detector hire job in busy Melbourne by Allan who lost his gold wedding band gardening. Mulching, planting a few plants etc during these activities he never notice it had slipped of till that after noon. The only place it could be was in the back garden.
Melton Metal detector Jewellery Rescue
Allan borrowed his neighbours el cheapo detector to his credit and tried to find it himself.
Paul find the Treasure again.
It wasn’t to long before Allan had to give up with the amount of false readings indicated by the detector. Allan new he needed a better machine and called Jewellery Rescue to hire machine and experienced detectorist as he knew it was the best way to get his ring back, smart man. Paul arrived at Allan’s home and yard and started detecting where Allan had mulched and planted plants all the places Allan started checking. 2 hours later Paul’s experience kicked in and started searching the lawn near where Alan had being working and with in minutes had found and returned Allan’s wedding ring to him much to Allans relief. He was more stressed than he was letting on he later admitted to us. Dont worry Allan we know you where feeling the pinch just glad we could help.
A call from Cassey and Brett their young son had thrown one at a time three rings into a monster hedge 3 metre high x 1M thick by 12 m long. Cassey quickly found two of the rings under the
Out of the hedge over the fence
hedge near the back. But the third most expensive diamond engagement $20K ring was no where to be found. It was arranged that Dan one of our ACT detectorists search the hedge for her. Little Did Dan know how right he was as he said to Brett this will take 10 minutes, or much longer. Excerpts from JR Dan’s accounts. The 4yo was throwing things from the trampoline. “What are you throwing?” his mum asked. “Nothing” he replied. The third throw was harder than the others, somewhat in the same direction, as he tried to get rid of “nothing” quickly.
The back neighbour’s yard was a neat three tiered built up garden with wooden beams secured by
Happy faces make it all worth while.
bolts. JR asked me to have a look 4 and 1/2 hours later (2 in the back neighbour’s garden) I had to call it a day. I made arrangements to go back the following week. I turned up to find JR waiting for us just outside of his very distinctive JR car. He was organising another JR to come along and help. Jarhead got there very quickly. This was going to be a team effort. My wife and I searched the top half of the hedge, giving pretty well each hedge branch a fairly decent going over, rooftops and roof gutters. JR and jarhead searched the lower half and scans of the ground, a tall flowering tree and normal garden things. After some time jarhead went into two neighbour’s yards – one was going to be difficult – metal shed close to the fence. JR went into the third neighbour’s yard. After 5 hours we took a break as the mum gave us chicken and salad rolls – yum. It was greatly appreciated and what some tired and hungry detectorists needed. Jarhead had to leave shortly after lunch for family commitments. JR jumped the backfence with the aid of the very flexible ladder. My wife and I came to the end of time as JR jumped back into the yard, looked at me and asked “Going?” I despondently said yes. He called the young mum over and I thought he was going to break the news to her. He did. He presented the ring. The bugr! He’d go well in a poker game. Tears and smiles from the mum, even my wife had a tear. It had been camouflaged near bolts and a bush. JR rang jarhead to tell him the news. I think we spent over 30 detecting hours looking for the ring. And the smiles and relief were worth it.
Personally, I gained more and met another JR member in Canberra. JR’s wealth of knowledge, experience, objectivity and perseverance is a sight to behold. He supported and thought about us as people and detectorists. His and jarhead’s commitment was fantastic. Now having met a fellow JR coin and relic person in Canberra it looks like we and others jarhead knows here will make it out together detecting potential sites. Great result all round. Well told Story Dan, you all are great detectorists with a very keen search attitude after my own heart, I think a dash good luck saved this day and I dont reject good luck anytime, to make our team effort victorious over the hedge. Go Jewellery Rescue Team my hats of to you. Tony.
Jade called she said she had lost her ring, situation normal so far, then she said she was pregnant and I thought Jade said in labour, a dry gulp from me, shouldn’t you be on you way to hospital not standing on the beach i asked? Jade said oh it was was coming on for a few days now. OK. So that reassured me, Not! Well needless to say I meet up with Jade and her husband Daniel from memory ASAP as a precaution to helping them out to the maximum . Later Daniel said she wasnt due till April 2012
The area they where sitting on the beach wasn’t large and soon I had dug up 4 targets now with the additional interst of a dad and daughter sailing team watching on the last one being Jade’s huge rectangle cut lovely ring. I was extremely glad I could return her lost diamond ring to them to take any additional stress off Jade’s pregnancy so they can focus on bringing there first born into the world. I a little cheaky and offered to let them call their new addition “Jewellery Rescue” as it had a nice ring to it. They declined the offer politely with out laughing out loud and instead they added a handsome reward to the base search cost and reassured me they had baby names already picked out. I wish this new family all the best.
If any one has found a lost Orthodox gold Cross pendant on or near Daisy Hill Conservation Park south of Brisbane. Around the 15 August Please contact Tony at Jewellery Rescue 0457870000 to be forwarded on to a very deserving owner that has deep attachments to the family heirloom. The reward for this item is $500 which is in excess of the gold value any one would get at a gold dealer. From experiance the good deed of tracking the owner down will be a reward for your feeling of well being, for life, long after you spent any reward.
Well at Jewellery Rescue we exausted all efforts to search a 5.6km track the Stringybark trail at Daisy hill. We had numerous proven detectorist over several days search the length and breath of the track which is fairly open visually as well. We now know the pendant cross 40mm approx long is not sitting there on the ground. At least we have ruled out the larger search area for our customers peace of mind. This is how some search efforts go that are beyond our best efforts I thank our customer for trusting us to search as hard as possible and we except your kind thanks, and please still spare a glimmer of hope some honest person will find our lost advert and phone. Regards Tony Jewellery Rescue “We care”
Well this story is one of the reasons I do a metal detecting hire service for Australia. Martin called me Sunday night about 9pm when I went to bed early for a change tied after a water job. I didn’t hear him call, SMS or email and my phone was on the bedside table, I normally am a night owl and have taken calls as late as 1:20am. So in the morning I returned Martins call to learn his fiance had brushed her hands on her clothes and sent the ring flying around a path and a garden further away than they first thought in this cooler weather as hands shrink. I arranged to meet Martin and her fiance at their place that night so they would not have another night with out their heartfelt engagment ring currently absent without leave.
Martin and Olivia recovered ring.
Greeted on arrival by Martin and Olivia we where soon looking at the search area where the ring was lost. The couple had allready visually searched hard by torch light and looked into a surface drain near their newly installed outdoor oven. I also admired the new look mondo grass with scissor trimmed short back and sides not some time you see every day, all good all search efforts to re-find the AWL platinum and diamond ring. Olivia and Martin at my search request swept up the clippings over the path and put them in plastic bag just in case the ring was amongst it. We detected some thing metal and turned the dogs washable bed into a make shift sorting table to find a nail. Well my main detector quickly found the steel in the path a few surface pegs and nails. So I switched down to a cute little detector i use in tight places amongst plants. and with in a few passes detected a signal that matched some thing platinum like. I peeked into the detection area in question and stepped back while talking to Martin and Olivia about some other interesting finds I made at other places for a minute or two as I do. I am not sure what Olivia was thinking but she said aren’t you going to check that signal? Smiling inwardly at anticipation of their impending find I held out the pinpointer and said who wants the honours? Looking at each other Martin took the pin pointer and found what I had all ready seen and kept quiet about bad boy me, their wayward engagement ring. He took the ring brushed it and placed back on her finger and said “it looks like the wedding is still on” with a bit of humour of his own. Thanks guys for the invite to your home to search for what will be a new family heirloom one day. I think you might agree Olivia’s smile tells you about the thanks this couple sincerely expressed. Not so lucky for the next person I searched for that night on Maroubra beach with two detectorists, at times, working till 3 am. Result a No Find, thats detecting some times sadly I hope our detailed exhaustive search gave them some closure on their loss.
Anna was sure she needed some help to locate her diamond earring lost in pretty think grass under the clothes line 4 hours earlier given to her by family on her 21st a few years earlier. A very sensible desision to call for a proffessinal service given not all detectorist or hire places have the fine metal detectors to pick up the smallest stud earrings. Anna and her lovely baby first called Brad from Metal detector hire also in Sydney. Brad who also cares more about people and finding their items like i do knew I had a detector especially suited for the really small items. Where as our primary detectors are powerfull some times less is more. Well with the right detector for the job and a little luck that day with in 5 minutes we had found Anna’s earring returned to her where it belongs. My thanks to Anna and her family for inviting Metal Detector Hire and Jewellery Rescue out to search for her. Watch on You tube a brief video of how the search looked. I also use some video’s to assist other detectorists learning.
Hi Tony, I lost a ring (my mother’s engagement ring) last Sunday in my son’s backyard at a child’s birthday party. I was throwing a kong for the dog and I suspect I also flung the ring off my finger and didn’t notice it was missing right away. Luckily my son had mown the grass the day before, so won’t need to do it for a while. The house is situated on a 1 acre block. We are at the start of the Southern Highlands. Can you let me know if you are able to conduct a search for me. I have no idea of the monetary value of the ring but my mum was always very proud of it. Looking forward to hearing from you. Regards, Del , Bargo NSW 2574
Jewellery Rescue job by Tony, AS this email came through to my phone prompty I Called Del after just finding another couples ring at Balmoral and arranged to meet her that late afternoon. On arrival Del and family showed me the area the dog chew toy kong was thrown, over about a half acre for about half an hour, she went in side and them realised it was missing. As the dogs drooled all over the kong as they do she stuck her ring finger in the kong hole as not to get slimed by dog dribble. As she through the kong the same way on her ring finger eventually it worked loose and came off some time with the kong toy. So the first place was to check the hollow kong, no not there I like making sure. Second place for fun mostly to add to their neighbour hood story I detected the dogs belly in case it swallowed it. No not there or their stools. Ok now for the inch by inch search where the ball was landing. The idea on a larger property is to grid in one direction then cross grid it to make sure we cover it. So with my flotilla of kids dogs and now two inquisitive hubbies watching and asking questions (which I encourage). I was off and detecting down the slight slope towards the area the kong was being thrown from. Several passes across the yard found an old car badge crumpled can. I reset the etrac to manual sensitivity 15 as the ground was messing with the auto tune. Put a test coin on the ground made sure response was as i expected. Ignoring many metal items under ground I kept going. 20 mins later night apon us, where the grass was quite short but still the ring still hid especially with that straw coloured grass bits. Well near a small tree raised I picked up a good gold signal with the classic etrac triple beep beeeep beep of a singal surface target. A quick detect with the pro pointer I could see the ring nestled in to the grass. The kids saw I was on to some thing and rushed over I asked them to spot what i could see. I didnt take long they found it I told them to leave it there and sent them off to round up the adults. They went of yelling he found it he found it lol. Del’s son and family came out and I ask them to spot the ring too and further let them all listen to the etrac making is beeps over the ring. The Daughter inlaw of Del’s picked up the ring which looks great in bright led light , sparkling in the light looking as if it was glad to be found. In they went and called Del exurbertly on the phone. Del is a very nice woman and lost her mothers diamond ring but she was starting to wonder if she would see it again. Her family was unsure a metal detector guy was the way to go but Del wasnt one to be put off. Well ever one in that family are now believers .
Lady has her heart felt ring returned.
If I was to rate the job I would say 80% of getting the ring back as their is a bit of uncertainess about when it was lost. But most owners as a general rule do know where it subconsiously slipped off, but not every time and some are a little off target with location be prepared with secondard search areas, Well took a couple of photos a little blurry with the phone camera see best one below. I thank Del and her family for inviting me to their home and searching and for the additional reward for coming out some distance . To me the most important thing is the ring is found back with Del and Family.
Del’s Email post find: Hi Tony, I’m utterly amazed that you found my ring in super quick time. Thank you so much; I would recommend your services to anyone else who found themselves in the same predicament. My son’s family sounded very jubilant over the phone when they phoned me. Tomorrow when I pick up the ring from their house, I’ll photograph myself with the ring and send it to you to add to your collection. Ciao, Del
Snoopy on a jewellery rescue metal detector hire call out for a lost ring. Young Lady 21 lost her gold and zirconia ring her boy friend gave her while in the back yard. It was slightly loose and it slipped off as rings some times do. She knew pretty much where she lost it but after a 24 hour hand and knee search by a mob of them the ring remained invisable in reasonably short grass especially if you have some winter yellow fleck grass leafs to help mask the ring. Well Snoopy was able to come out the same afternoon after work the job was calling in on which is important as people some times stress at a ring loss as the jewellery holds significance in there lifes even friendship rings. Best to see the video see link above. But the way it goes is Snoopy with in 10 minutes had the ring found and back it to her mums hands (as it was lost at her place) with in 10 minutes. A great result for Snoopy on his first successful JR job.
Watch us find her daughters ring on You tube click link below.
What a buzz. I did my first job with JR this morning. The look on the client’s face when I gave him his gold ring back was priceless. I got a message from Tony yesterday morning to help find a ring fallen off a young bloke’s finger from the 2nd floor of a block of units. The bloke told Tony that his mother had given him the ring when he was 14, and the ring’s design was of waves (the surf and beaches were something special to him). The bloke and his mate had a look for it up to about 1am that day then made the call to Tony. I met the young bloke at 9am this morning. He showed me and described the ring’s descent as it bounced off the first floor’s balcony into the leaves below. The ground was pine chipped and ivy growing in a flat area before rising up a heavily ivy strewn slope. With the help of a Garrett Pro Pointer I found the ring just under 30 minutes later. The look on his face when I handed it to him was priceless. Thanks very much Tony for the full and total support you gave to me as a newbie to this style of detecting. it was a real pleasure all round. Signed Dan.
Tony Jewellery Rescue reply. Well Done indeed Dan, Top first job jewellery rescue job clearly your experianced at finding items welcome to the Australia wide network.
Dan that is one special ring you returned Jeremy today as on his 14th B’day, with his mom saw a cool Stainless steel surfers ring he wanted. But he was allergic to Stainless steel, but unknown to him his mom borrowed the ring and comissioned a jeweller to replicate the surfer ring in 9k gold as special gift. How cool is that, forget ring dollar value here to Jeremy this is a priceless one off item.
Welcome to Jewellery Rescue metal detector hire service Mike. Rockhampton is now supported by Jewellery Rescue Network Austraila. I find you metal detecting attitude and skills in your following real life jewellery rescue to be of outstanding quality as of Brians in the same area.
Extract from Mike’s story as told by him.
Counte Pierre and I went on a short stroll at the beach this morning so he could get a feel for his new scoop. I was only on the sand for 2 minutes as a couple walking their dogs approached me with some queries.
They wanted to know where I was from, and what I might charge for my services. The missus claimed she lost her diamond engagement ring in their back yard near the heels hoist. My ears lit up! “Do tell???” I exclaimed. She said her finger had shrank as she had lost some weight and she lost it while hanging out the laundry. They claimed they rang around and could not find anybody that offered this service and could not even find a local place to hire the equipment. I asked where they lived and it turned out to be right on my way back to town. I have always dreamed about finding somebody’s lost ring, but just never came across the opportunity. Today opportunity was knockin my door down! I verified that they were certain they knew almost exactly where it was, and there would not be any large metal obstructions right nearby to make the detecting difficult. I told them I was relatively confident that I could locate it if it had not been kicked up by mowing or something. It was nearly sunset and we had 30kms to go, so off we headed to have a go!
As soon as we pulled up in the drive it was already dark, but they claimed to have a back porch light. As soon as I headed through the garage the lady told me ” I have to come clean now…..there are actually THREE gold diamond rings out there somewhere, as I THREW them out there a couple months ago!” Personal business, and NOT mine, but I knew where she was coming from – $hit happens
She went into town for fish and chips as her husband and I set off to find the goodies. With the depth indicator I knew we would not have to dig anything that showed over a few inches deep(the grass was that deep already). In no time I hit a strong signal, but it pinpointed large, and sure enough, just under the grass surface was a can lid, then a few metres away, some alfoil, then eventually a 2c brownie, then a 50c. After less then 10 mins though I got a real nice tone, and right near the surface. The pro-pointer made it clear that it was a nice narrow, clean solid target.
I poked my fingers through the grass and at the very bottom, nearly in the soil – there it was! The first ring! Only it had no stone in it It looked like silver or white gold and you could tell it wasn’t directly hit, but slightly deformed and the setting had opened up and let go of the stone. Obviously a victim of the mower after all. BUT as I handed it to the hubby and asked if this was it, he replied ” I’m not sure?” What?? This was right in the path that she tossed them. I let him pocket the find while we kept looking for number 2 and 3. I was feeling pretty good having already found potentially 1/3 of the loot!
When she returned with food we called her over for a look. She too shrugged her shoulders and didn’t recognise the ring! I made about 2 more rows 10 metres long, a little bit to the right of the potential target zone. More trash and deep signal, but no winners.
Then I started to make a pass to the left of the target zone. I got a signal, but it wasn’t a ripper. Consistent enough though to justify a stoop with the pro-pointer. A great strong, narrow signal right on the surface. He held the torch overhead as I scratched through the grass with me fingers. Then, there it was……. a small two-banded gold ring with two small diamonds in it! He called the missus over for a look and she confirmed that was ONE of the rings! SCORE! This however was neither the wedding nor engagement ring. I stood back up and kept swinging. Less than a metre away I got another mediocre but consistent signal at 3-4 inches (the grass was 4 inches deep here). The pro-pointer nailed it, and a little finger digging exposed the WEDDING RING!! Boo yah! Two out of three! On the ground I could already hear another signal about a foot away with the pro-pointer. I went ahead and checked the detector and it was in the right range and made similar tone. 10 seconds poking through the grass unveiled the Engagement ring!!
He was amazed and said straight away that they would NEVER have found them without the right gear.
I was ten feet tall and bulletproof! Not only did I recover all three of her diamond rings, but found a nice silver ring to boot! All this in about 40 minutes in the dark.
Fish and chips were on the table so we sat down for a great meal and she kept looking down at her finger with all the rings on it. Turning them on her finger, you could see the joy in her eyes. I told them I HAD to at least photograph the goodies so they gladly obliged.
All was good, now I couldn’t wait to get back to town to tell Count Pierre of my big finish!
He was stoked as well and told me to hurry up and post the news! He also confirmed my big ring was 925. That explained the nice juicy tone it put off.
So a great day with a fellow detector, and the opportunity to help someone find a LOT of precious goodies!
People of Rockhampton your sitting pretty, to have these sort of quality detectorists in your town ready to assist you if you need a Jewellery Rescue if a minor disaster strikes your friends or family.
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Oct 31 2011
It looked like silver or white gold and you could tell it wasn’t directly hit, but slightly deformed and the setting had opened up and let go of the stone. Obviously a victim of the mower after all. BUT as I handed it to the hubby and asked if this was it, he replied ” I’m not sure?” What?? This was right in the path that she tossed them. I let him pocket the find while we kept looking for number 2 and 3. I was feeling pretty good having already found potentially 1/3 of the loot!