KANSAS CITY, Mo (Reuters) - Tossing a mill into a Salvation Army kettle during Christmas wouldn't be a good thing to do. Unless it's a diamond, of course.
Someone recently put a 3/4-carat solid in a kettle outward a Walmart in Shawnee, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City. It was appraised Thursday during $2,000.
A Salvation Army worker found a loose diamond wrapped in paper, pronounced Major Michele Heaver, a mouthpiece for a group.
"First he suspicion it was rabble and afterwards he detected it was utterly a opposite," Heaver pronounced Friday. "He told us about it and we put it in a safe."
The solid was cut about 100 years ago, Heaver said, citing a appraiser. It will be set in a ring and auctioned off, with deduction used to assistance families and others in need, she said.
Over a years, other equipment besides money and checks have seemed in Salvation Army kettles, including bullion bars, bullion coins and wads of cash, Heaver said.
"I've never listened of an tangible diamond," Heaver said. "We are really vehement to get that form of donation."
(Reporting by Kevin Murphy; Editing by Mary Wisniewski and Jerry Norton)
News referensi http://news.yahoo.com/jewel-gift-lands-kansas-city-area-salvation-army-181911311.html
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