10/24/26 Report - Found Reale Happily Refound. Dating Jewelry and a Platinum Diamond Tension Set Ring Find. Big Surf Coming Soon.

 

Written by the Treasureguide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.

Reale Found a Months Ago.

I found this reale on a beach several months ago.  It was the first one I found metal detecting with my Manticore. It was one of my first times out with the Manticore.  Maybe it was the first hunt with the Manticore, but I'm not sure about that anymore.  Anyway, I put the reale somewhere and couldn't find it for months.  I looked almost everywhere around the house, because I hadn't put it in the vault yet.  I was starting to give up on ever finding it again; but when I was looking for something else the other day, I found it.  It was in a jewelry box - the kind of box a store might give you when you buy an engagement ring.  I never thought I would have put it in something like that, but I guess I did.  

Despite the reale not being anything really special, I was very happy to find it again.  It was aggravating to lose track of it after finding it on the beach, so I was.almost as happy to refind it as I was to find it originally.  

 Not the best photos.  I'll clean the coin up some and try to get better photos and study the coin

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Yesterday I talked about how you can figure out the age of a ring from its style.  Here is a good example.

Platinum Diamond Ring Metal Detector Find.

I found this ring in shallow water using a Tesoro Stingray, which I never used very much.  

The ring is bicolor platinum and is held by tension without any other setting material. 

The first Niessing tension ring was made from 18 Karat gold, a metal with enough give to be worked into a spring-like shape without becoming brittle. Later versions moved to Platinum, which holds its spring tension even better over time. The style reached American engagement ring shoppers largely through jeweler Steven Kretchmer, who patented a proprietary platinum alloy called Plat/SK in 1987 and later secured patents on his own tension-setting method in the early 1990s. That alloy let jewelers make tension rings noticeably lighter than Niessing’s original 35-gram design, without losing the strength needed to hold a diamond securely.

I'd guess I found the ring in the early 1990s, although I don't remember for sure.  I don't remember when I got the Stingray, but it was marketed by Tesoro beginning in 1991.   And the ring was close to the surface.  I remember the signal of the platinum ring as being not loud but smooth.

In my yesterday's post I quoted    which says,

1990s rings were sharper, cleaner, more angular with a princess cut and a square modified brilliant. Tension settings were used with the stone appearing to be suspended between two ends of a band. Channel-set shoulders were very common.  

Here is the link for that.  A century of engagement ring design - Our Culture

Even with my partial memory, it all seems to support that it is a ring from the 1990s.

You might try dating some of your ring finds.

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Wimdyty.com Wind Chart for the 24th

Windyty.com Wind Chart for Oct. 25.

The big predicted surf for the coming week is kind of exciting, but I took a look at the Windyty.com wind charts for the next few days and was a little disappointed.  I'd really like to see better angles on the wind.  Saturday we have a little more northerly wind than after that.  I'd really like to see a more northerly wind when we get the really big surf.  At least we will have the high water.

Fort Pierce South Beach Saturday Morning.

Nothing great going on there.

We still have the nice high surf and tides to look forward to beginning Sunday and continuing for a few days.

SurfGuru.com Surf Chart.

Good hunting,

Treasureguide@comcast.net