Nice !!! I do collect old plastics since years and have found years ago that any car polish product (very cheap to buy from supermarket) works...
Love your necklace Scoutshouse, very interesting color. I will wear mine at occasions - it's very heavy :-) Thanks all for all your infos...
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could be conch as well.
Hi - I disassembled a link of the first one. The section appears like "white metal" but still test positive for 18 K. Maybe my acid has a...
good idea, will put a link off to test.
Yes I know, therefore I kind of really insisted :-). Can any other metal than gold give a positive gold test ? Any other way to test ?
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this is what a also thought, but acid test says gold 18 K.
Hello, here are two necklaces I once found at a charity shop. I was questionned by the golden links and back home found all the main links in...
I am sure if it would have been clean, it would have been gone at the opening in the morning - or the seller would have realized it is not junk.
Yes, I could have done more but I feel some patina belongs to it.
Thank you :-)
Ok, done. You are the best : no péridots for sure - the only stone that had this olivine colour is actually the glass one with bubbles. I took a...
I really love your earrings ! I was really excited about this find as the rest of the flea market was zero. It's very rare to find these kind...
they look in real quite green. will make pics under daylight and after cleaning. Since then I did some examination with my loupe and at least one...
Today I went to a flea market close to my place in France. Nothing exciting but one ring caught my attention. I believe it is a very old piece of...
Chrysoprase ?
Thanks and yes, you are absolutely right :-) I went through my filigree brooches this morning and North African work is indeed quite different.
looks like Berber work. Some live in Nigeria. Recent work and as marked "Nigeria", probably a production for "export" or tourists. I like it !
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