2nd Follow-up

[hrj]

The fingerprint guy showed up at 1:45 am,just as I was starting to drift off. One can always hope, although I recall a news item about budget cuts in the Oakland Police Dept pretty much eliminating the analysis side of fingerprinting. Having made all the finance-related phone calls first thing in the morning, I've been spending my lunch hour on-line printing out applications for replacement documents. This is the down side of keeping all your essential papers in a single location. I haven't tackled the insurance company yet. If sympathy were police action, I'd have the perp in jail and all my stuff back -- thanks for all the good wishes.

And sure enough, the only time I started bawling was talking to my mom about g-g-grandma's diamond ring.

Comments

[hrj.livejournal.com]

The problem is that it's an utterly generic ring: basic round standard-cut diamond in a simple Tiffany-style setting. I confess that if you put it in a line-up with five similar-looking rings, even I wouldn't be able to identify it. Now the cameo that was also in there -- that's a lot more distinctive (if, probably, much less valuable).

[theiadora.livejournal.com]

But odds are if they pawn the ring, they will pawn the cameo at the same place. So if they find the cameo the pawn shop might be able to tell you which ring came in with it.