Honest jeweler. Good for him.
Is that value more than Obama claimed on his charity contributions?
The ladies at a thrift store in NYC once admitted to me, that someone had contributed gold jewelry, and that they had sold it as costume jewelry. This probably happens a lot.
This is why people prowl flea markets, tag sales, and thrift stores.
I think they should have posted that in a Lost and Found first... They say the ring was found among costume jewelry, I wonder if someone gave it away by accident?
I would hope that Goodwill made a reasonable effort to track down the owner. This was obviously an accidental “donation” — if anyone was knowingly giving something of this value to Goodwill, they would certainly alert the receiving staff as to what it was, and they would almost certainly request a receipt for tax purposes. This may well have been a case of a confused old woman dying or being moved to a nursing home, and her adult children clearing out mountains of accumulated belongings that consist mostly of worthless junk, and not realizing that in her confusion, their mother had tossed this diamond ring in with a bunch of junky costume jewelry.
The information provided in this article isn’t enough to alert the unwitting donor. It doesn’t even say what time frame, or what store or donation center the item was donated to — just “in Pennsylvania”, and then ended up at a sorting and distribution center in Harrisburg. There must be at least a thousand people who’ve donated stuff to Goodwill including some costume jewelry in the past few weeks.
I shop good will and once picked up a 14K gold retirement watch from Park Davis with name engraved and dated 1965. Paid 4.99 cents, sold it for 100 dollars ...Also picked up a 1950 lucite purse for 1.99 sold it on ebay for 125 dollars...you have to know what you are looking at...but every once in a while you find a treasure...also for 39 cents bought a burger king fire king mug and gave it to my daughter ( I had quit ebay) she got 53 dollars for it..