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<p>[QUOTE="George Chaney, post: 4288307, member: 19137"]What a very lovely bracelet. Most likely If there was greening in the crevices, it is going to test out as gold filled. I would go to extra lengths to test this before calling it solid 10K gold. Looking at the photos I am not so sure it is solid gold</p><p><br /></p><p>I had one of these that was damaged that was testing the same way. It was what we called sketch on whether it was solid or not so I had my gold buyer melt it down to settle the debate. it had a final test weight of gold at about 4 karat or so. It turns out, it was gold filled. I threw in a pile of scrap 10 & 14 karat that I like to hoard up for these purposes and got it up to the minimum 8 karat they would buy. The net result was a couple hundred extra dollars in scrap value.</p><p><br /></p><p>So if that helps out, at 1400 an ounce, mine had 200 bucks of gold fill.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good luck![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="George Chaney, post: 4288307, member: 19137"]What a very lovely bracelet. Most likely If there was greening in the crevices, it is going to test out as gold filled. I would go to extra lengths to test this before calling it solid 10K gold. Looking at the photos I am not so sure it is solid gold I had one of these that was damaged that was testing the same way. It was what we called sketch on whether it was solid or not so I had my gold buyer melt it down to settle the debate. it had a final test weight of gold at about 4 karat or so. It turns out, it was gold filled. I threw in a pile of scrap 10 & 14 karat that I like to hoard up for these purposes and got it up to the minimum 8 karat they would buy. The net result was a couple hundred extra dollars in scrap value. So if that helps out, at 1400 an ounce, mine had 200 bucks of gold fill. Good luck![/QUOTE]
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