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Message:: [QUOTE="spartcom5, post: 2069415, member: 5213"]A few years ago when I was relatively new to jewelry I bought this bracelet because I had seen some weird markings on the clasp but never took a loupe to them. After I had bought it for $2.00 I immediately took it to a snobby higher end jewelry store and the rude guy there told me it wasn't marked 14k or anything and he didn't want to waste acid testing it. Obviously defeated I just put it in a box full of junk. Well just today I was sifting through junk to find something to sell on ebay and I happened to stumble across this bracelet again. Curious I took my own loupe to the mystery marks and low and behold they are the mark for French 18k used since 1839.... Now with that said the bracelet is marked twice, once on the clasp and once on the actual bracelet part. However, I noticed a few spots on the bracelet where it looks like the metal changes color? If you click on the second picture you can see on one of the fourth link that the metal changes to a silver color, almost like wearing down like gold fill? It's weird and I'm not sure what to make of it.. What do you all think? I am going to try and have it electronically tested if I can.[ATTACH=full]249714[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]249715[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]249716[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]249717[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]