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jasper · Unfettered Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 560 Location: Texas

thanks! that makes sense!

**Posted:** Tue Jul 01, 2008 6:30 am

Canzonett · Unfettered Joined: 28 Jun 2007 Posts: 489 Location: Munich

Team Wellington, could you take a picture of the dots/holes/whatever-they-are surrounding the ring as well, so one might try a Braille reading? (Or find someone able to read Braille and ask that person to try and read it for you!)

**Posted:** Tue Jul 01, 2008 6:40 am

AUZ505

Great work, but still many questions?

So in which gallery was it finally found? Pop Up?
Was there a ring keeper? How does he/she reacted to the password?

I hope we get a report about all - or did I just missed it?

**Posted:** Tue Jul 01, 2008 6:58 am

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Canzonett · Unfettered Joined: 28 Jun 2007 Posts: 489 Location: Munich

No report yet, unless one has been given on via IRC. And Team Wellington is probably fast asleep at the moment ...

**Posted:** Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:06 am

unagi · Unfettered Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 464 Location: Japan

**Posted:** Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:16 am

starlajo

Hey,
I hope June and Mr.Judkins don't mind me jumping in here and answering a few questions seeing as this was their work!

I tagged along with them this afternoon. It was at Pop Up. The owner knew what we there for because we walked in and spotted the ring straight away and started talking about it. I thought it was going to be small, so I was probably acting the most surprised! The guy was really nice about it- Mr.Judkins missed the word 'the' from the password phrase and I think he acted a bit suspicious about that! He was genuinely interested and hadn't seen the Lost Ring site, so June gave him the URL.

June said she is making a rubbing of the ring's interior, which includes the braille, and she will scan it.
From holding onto the ring briefly it seemed very solidly welded together, so it seems hard to imagine there will be any disassembly of it to take parts for a sixth, but I could be wrong!

**Posted:** Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:30 am

AUZ505

**Posted:** Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:19 am

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Hello again all - so cold I can't sleep, so I'm refilling hot water bottles.

The pickup was made from Popup Gallery, 57 Ghuznee Street, Wellington.

The complete password the Gallery Manager/Ring Keeper was given was "The Sphinx" - and he wasn't sure how exact it had to be. But he decided that "Sphinx" was surely close enough, thank goodness.

He played it very cool when we came in and were all agape at the ring - I was expecting something 38cm wide, but was still blown away by it's sheer size and style too. We explained to him that we were here to collect it, and had the password. "If you do indeed have the password," he replied with raised eyebrow, "You can take it away." Once it was clear we were "The Transporter" he was looking for, things warmed up quickly.

sapagoo

**Posted:** Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:14 am

dreamerblue

Holy cow. That thing is beautiful. It must have taken a lot of work to create!

**Posted:** Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:04 pm

MauroKing

Can I post all this on the Diego's forum? The spanish-speakers don't visit uF too much and they depend on the IG forums... do you mind if I post the story and the photos?

**Posted:** Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:28 pm

Canzonett · Unfettered Joined: 28 Jun 2007 Posts: 489 Location: Munich

Tricky questions. Should Theo know the ring is in our hands? Maybe you should ask Eli first.

**Posted:** Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:54 pm

AUZ505

**Posted:** Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:59 pm

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**Posted:** Tue Jul 01, 2008 3:39 pm

Oriza

Great job, June and Mr. Judkins!
That's a damn big ring, though....

A thought just occurred to me.
If the curator at the museum you guys were at is IG, could he possibly be the 'ringkeeper' James' message was referring to in the English bit at the end?
Of course, if he's not IG, he might not know it at all.
So does he know anything about this?

**Posted:** Tue Jul 01, 2008 4:30 pm

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