Phoenixville Man Unexpectedly Gets An 'Early Christmas Present'

PHOENIXVILLE, PA —Gary Guadagno of Phoenixville thought his parents' wedding rings were forever lost, but thanks to a Berks County couple they were recently found, according to a report Friday on NBC 10.

Guadagno said when selling his childhood home in Reading in 2011 he searched everywhere for his parents’ wedding rings to no avail. His father died in 1978 and his mother died in 2012.

“I thought they were lost forever,” Guadagno told Fox29 of the rings the couple exchanged when they got married on Sept. 11, 1947.

Martin, 36, and his wife, Hannah Keuscher, 33, purchased the childhood home of Guadagno’s parents on Harvard Boulevard, according to the Washington Post.

Martin, a self-proclaimed treasure hunter, said was trying to find a gift for his wife that he had hidden in the house.

That's when he unexpectedly found a jewelry box with Guadagno’s parents' wedding rings in the kitchen light fixture. He recorded a video of how he found them and tracked Guadagno down on Facebook.

“I saw a message on Facebook from a stranger,” Guadagno said. Martin and his family drove the rings down to Guadagno’s house in Phoenixville on Oct. 28.

“It’s an early Christmas present,” Guadagno said.