Gold Ring That Was Lost in Flood is Found

It is great when something that was lost gets found. Earlier this week, we told you about how an alert parent at a Boys and Girls Club came across the gold and silver Olympic medals that were stolen from an Olympic swimmer. This is a great story because it has a happy ending. However we are still shaking our heads over the fact that the swimmer left these gold and silver Olympic medals in an unlocked car in the first place.

What we really just love are the stories about people finding or having their gold jewelry returned after many years. Often the gold jewelry is returned long after the owner has stopped looking and has given up their gold jewelry for lost.

A woman in Malaysia lost her gold wedding ring after the shop that she owned was hit by a flood twenty years ago. Surely, this woman was very excited to have escaped the floods with her life, but that does not mean that she did not mourn the loss of the gold ring. Her husband told the media that value of the gold ring did not lie in what it cost him to buy it, but in the fact that it was a symbol of the couple's love.

It was plumber who discovered the gold ring. The gold ring was lodged in a corroded pipe. The ring’s owner was able to identify it because of the inscription it bore. Interestingly enough, the woman herself owns a jewelry store. So she was surrounded by many lovely piece of jewelry, and probably saw a good number of gold rings on a daily basis. Yet she did not know that the one gold ring that meant the most to her was still around in the shop, hidden in plain sight.

This is a heartwarming story, but we know that all gold jewelry finds are not so emotional. You may come across some gold jewelry that you had forgotten in your home and feel no particular attachment to it, for any number of reasons. That is okay. If you are not fond enough of your gold jewelry to keep it, then you can sell it to a gold buyer. Surely you have a fondness for currency and when you sell gold, you can get cash for gold.