- Once upon a time, when in my early teens, I took a long walk along the beach. Growing tired, a sat against a sand dune, folded my hands behind my head, and watched the waves slide up the beach. My elbow touched the sand and started a small avalanche. As the sand slid down the dune beside me, out tumbled this gold ring! Realizing what it was, I was overcome with the romance of buried treasure, Blackbeard and Captain Kidd, and began to claw at the dune in a frenzied effort to find more treasure; but alas, there was no treasure chest, no pathetic bones of a child... nothing. The sea was generous and for that I am grateful. The ring is stamped 14K, is about size 1 or 1 1/2, may have belonged to a child, and probably dates to the 1870's or 80's.I now have a metal detector but only find modern coins, lead sinkers, fishhooks and soda can tabs, Who wore this ring, what happened to them? How did the ring wind up on the beach for me to find? Who made it? Why was it made? Such questions only add to the romance of a ring
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