A couple of weeks back while at the cottage we had to move this dresser in my cabin to complete some electrical wiring. Hard work to be sure but from underneath the dresser I found a broken ring. After everyone looked at it, speculated about where it came from I put it in my bag. At one point (before we owned it) the cottage was a fishing lodge, so I imagined that some couple rented out my cabin and the young lady broke her ring, it fell under the dresser only to be discovered by me over 44 years later. The ring definitely wasn't gold but the stones looked real enough. As a side note when I got back to Toronto the ring wasn't in my bag. I turned my bag inside out and it was gone. I did find it on the floor of the cabin the next time I went to the cottage. So now I'm thinking that maybe it didn't want to leave the cottage, that some sad story was attached to the ring. Maybe upon finding out that the ring wasn't made from gold the young lady broke it in half and tossed it. Or maybe when the ring broke the relationship went through turbulent times ending with a divorce. Whatever the story, we took it in to a jewelry store and they appraised it. The stones are glass. The ring is essentially worthless.
2 comments:
Perhaps the lady broke the ring when she found it wasn't gold and the stones were merely glass.
Wonder what she did to the young man who must have given it to her (it looks like an engagement ring)? Did she save herself from a marriage to a cheapskate? Must be a wonderful story there somewhere.
So far I have found no information on the ring. I checked with all of my family and no one recognizes it and no one has any recollections of any friends losing a ring. I hope the true story won't be lost like the ring.
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