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    while metal detecting found a US ARMY ADVANCE FLYING SCHOOL..1933 ring (goldring)

    Hi!! while metal detecting today a very old beach around montreal my hunting buddy found a nice us army corps of advance flying school (gold school ring)

    the rings is dated 1933

    inside there the inscription bombardere or something like that,,told my buddy that this could be worth more then the price of gold before he send it for melting

    any idea of the value?????

    thanks for any info

    Lucky-Luc

    p.s please send email of reply,,thanks,,an where he could sell it if he want to
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    Hi, you have to include detailed (close-up) pictures to receive any replies.
    regards, Jim

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    Quote Originally Posted by blazer91 View Post
    Hi, you have to include detailed (close-up) pictures to receive any replies.
    regards, Jim
    soon as my hunting buddy send me some picture i will put it on this forum,,,,

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    Quote Originally Posted by blazer91 View Post
    Hi, you have to include detailed (close-up) pictures to receive any replies.
    regards, Jim
    http://www.thetreasuredepot.com/cgi-...read;id=222924

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    i just post a link for the picture of the 1933 ring

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    Well, it might well be worth more than the gold content, but I can't imagine you would need us to tell you that. The ring seems to have initials on it. I expect that there is probably a website where you could search the initials/owner, since you have the date he was in the Corps. Probably Ebay would be an excellent venue for selling that ring, as it would appeal to US militaria collectors, ring collectors, and collectors of air related stuff.

    Ed

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    Quote Originally Posted by boltaction View Post
    The ring seems to have initials on it. I expect that there is probably a website where you could search the initials/owner, since you have the date he was in the Corps.

    Considering the small size of the USAAC at the time, the initials may very well be all you need to determine the wearer's ID.

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    Has anyone else out there in Forumland found anything interesting while searching an old wartime camp? We had a lady that worked at Warminster who'd often bring stuff into work to be identified as her husband was a metal detector fiend. He and his pals found hundreds of odds and ends on the hundreds of old army camp sites around Salisbury Plain here in Englandicon. A few No4 bayonets including a cruciform, commando knife, and some very early 1938/39 Mk1 .55" Boys brass (and a live Mk1W round) and the usual .303/.30 brass on disused ranges. Knives and forks with army numbers stamped in the handles, Sten gun breech block and the remains of a Horsa glider that had been used as a training aid to practice loading up gliders, water bottles and literally hundreds of the brass fitting from lost webbing that had rotted out. Bren gun carrier tracks.......

    Interesting!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter Laidlericon View Post
    Has anyone else out there in Forumland found anything interesting while searching an old wartime camp?
    Never found anything on the old camp which was situated in a long field round the corner were we lived in Cumbria, but the practise ground which was on the nearby moors, I found plenty of .303 cases, live rounds, bullets, 2" mortar parachute flares, smoke flares, and lots of fins off the HE 2" mortar rounds and the safety cap from these, found a few live HE rounds, and a lot of parachute flares were the chute never deployed.
    Few cap badges (Kings Own), and base plugs from the No36 grenade, clips of blanks and a corroded rifle bolt.
    Very few 9mm cases plus bullets and only ever found two 3" mortar fins.

    I did find plenty of what I now believe were to be meteorites , but at that time I was into stuff above and not rocks, and just left them, if only I knew then what I know now I,d be well off.

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    It is easy for me to say (as I have no financial intrest) but I would feel compelled to try and find the ID of the owner and track down a decendant.

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    I believe that the Advanced Aviation School of that time was associated with the 42nd School Squadron at Kelly Field, Texas. That would be a place to start, to see if you could track down bombardier class rosters for 1933. Like others have suggested, the number of trainees would have been very small, so discerning the likely owner from the initials might be possible. The owner has probably passed, but the survivors would probably love to have it.
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