Gold Wedding Band From 1948 Found at Roslyn Train Station

A gold wedding band that is nearly 70 years old was discovered at the Roslyn Train Station and the family who found it is intent on locating its owner.

Roslyn resident Joel Landstein said his son Eric found the ring as he got out of his car in the train station parking lot around 9 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 29.

“[The ring] was outside the door of his car,” Landstein told Patch. “There was a reflection and he picked it up.”

After Eric brought the ring home, it took them a day or two to find a magnifying glass to look at the date engraved year on the ring, which was 1948. They then brought the ring to a jeweler to identify the rest of the inscription.

After determining all of the engraved details on the ring, Landstein decided to construct signs that read:

“Gold wedding band found. If you know the rest of the inscription, __ __ _ _ 48, please call 516-297-0656.”

He posted the signs around the Roslyn Train Station about a week after discovering the ring.

Landstein also posted the sign on his Facebook page and the post has gotten more than 800 shares as of Thursday afternoon. “[The ring] must have some great history and memories that go with it. I would like to get this ring back to the family that lost it,” he said in the post. “If you can tell me the inscription and the day and month it belongs to you.”

There are endless possibilities on how the ring ended up in the LIRR parking lot, Landstein said. The original owner of the ring could be deceased and the jewelry could now belong to a family member, the ring could have been stolen, someone could have taken their gloves off and the ring may have fallen off, etc.

Despite the mystery behind how the ring got there, Landstein is determined to find the owner who lost a piece of jewelry that contains several decades of personal value. “Car keys can be replaced and cellphones can be replaced,” he said. Seventy-year-old rings cannot be easily replaced.

Image courtesy of Joel Landstein