Is "brushed" gold indicative of newer jewelry?

Hello all,

I am new here . I have always had an interest in antiques but am still learning jewelry styles/identification. I had a question which may be stupid: is textured gold (see below photo) always indicative of newer pieces which are not gold? I found this on an auction site and it is untested but labeled gold-toned.
Thankyou!

 

Welcome Lucas.
I can only see the photo of the back, but in this case that is the most important one. It is not brushed, but textured as you said in the post.
This kind of texture is indicative of costume jewellery. So the auctioneer is right to call it gold-toned, and not gold.
The stone seems to be a real stone, but not precious.

 

Thank you! Apologies for using the terminology "brushed" instead of "textured". Is there a reason why real jewelry is hardly ever textured like this?

 

That's ok, it is one of those jewellery things. Brushed has a very finely lined texture. Gold and silver jewellery of the 60s and early 70s often had a brushed look, part of the Modernist style of the period.

Goldsmiths and manufacturers don't want their jewellery to look like costume.

 

Lucas, in this thread is a brushed look gold pendant:

https://www.antiquers.com/threads/time-period-guess.57867/

 

That sort of texture on the back is never precious metal. Always pot metal/costume/whatever. I'd say the vast majority is 1960s/1970s. The costume pieces were sold as "genuine stone" in gift shops and the like.