What is yours will always come back to you. This saying is especially true for this story. A wedding ring that was accidentally flushed down a toilet back in 1940 has just been found mere metres from where it was lost.

Margarete Herzog accidentally dropped her ring into a public bathroom toilet while she was washing her hands back in 1940. Her daughter, Sonja Güldner, explains to Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung, a Brandenburg-based newspaper that Herzog was heartbroken over the loss.

After all the years, Herzog eventually lost hope that she would ever recover her precious band. She died in 1996 at age 87, never getting the chance to wear her ring again.

Now, however, the ring has miraculously been recovered. According to Beelitz city spokesman Thomas Lähns, hobby metal detectorists uncovered the ring in a fruit orchard near a water mill in the city, only metres away from where it was lost.

“Hobby archaeologists who recently traveled with the metal detector on the site of the old watermill exposed for the State Garden Show and in the immediate vicinity have brought to light all sorts of things, including a gold shimmering ring on which the initials H.H. and the date March 30, 1940 are engraved. ”

The detectorists then took the ring to the civil registry office to find the owner.

“Based on the few details provided, it was determined that Hans Herzog and Margarete Fechner were the only couple who got married on the day engraved on the jewelry,” Lähns said.

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