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How Can You Tell If Your Gold Jewelry Is Real?
Copyright © 2004, Monil Salisti
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* Tips For Buying Gold
1. Buy from someone you know or with a solid reputation.
2. Look for a store with a quality-assurance program that
tests its own pieces for purity. You don't have to shop at
Tiffany's to go for the real gold. Many major stores have
testing programs, too.
3. If the piece has a trademark, like Nike or a sports team
logo, it must have a license stamp on the back. If the
jewelry maker is willing to steal a trademark, experts say,
they may be willing to short you on gold.
4. Look at the workmanship. If the edges are frayed, or it
just looks cheap, it probably is under-karated.
5. And if you really want to make sure you've got legitimate
gold, you can have your pieces X-rayed at a quality-
assurance lab, like the one "20/20" used, for around $20.
* Under-Karating Now Rife Among Discount Jewelry Offers
In many countries (the US for example) anything less than 10
karats -- or about 42 percent real gold -- can't legally be
sold as gold.
Yet the reality is that with gold sales rising rapidly
"under-karating" is a very common problem even though it's
not widely known.
The worst cheating occurs with the less expensive
10-karat and 14-karat pieces, and the problem isn't easy to
resolve because by simply looking at a piece of gold there
is really no way to tell the difference between 10-karat and
8-karat.
Recently "20/20" bought several "discount" gold jewelry
articles in New York and had them tested by the American
Assay and Gemological Office - the lab that does quality
assurance checks on jewelry from Tiffany's.
The result: None of the 3 jewelry pieces they tested
actually met the minimum 10-karat as advertised!
* Here's A Quick Guide To Gold "Purity"
24K gold is pure gold.
18K gold contains 18 parts gold and 6 parts of one or more
additional metals, making it 75% gold.
14K gold contains 14 parts gold and 10 parts of one or more
additional metals, making it 58.3% gold.
12K gold contains 12 parts gold and 12 parts of one or more
additional metals, making it 50% gold.
10K gold contains 10 parts gold and 14 parts of one or more
additional metals, making it 41.7% gold. 10K gold is the
minimum karat that can be called "gold" in the United
States.
European Markings European gold jewelry is marked with
numbers that indicate their percentage of gold, such as:
18K gold is marked 750 to indicate 75% gold
14K gold is marked 585 for 58.5%
12K gold is marked 417 for 41.7%
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