redcobra8u
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- Jan 24, 2014
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Awhile back I posted a huge silver cross I found on a beach hunt. I didn't test the metal or stones since it looked like silver and I figured the stones would be fake. Well I invested a few bucks on a cheap diamond tester and started running through all of my junk pile as well as the keeper pile. While I guessed correctly on everything else, turns out the stones were real on this baby yet if failed the silver acid test and the 14 & 18k test. 10k not conclusive. Off to my local jewelry store where I learned that white 10k is difficult to to test due to the alloys used. He sent it off to be assayed and it comes back as 10k, lots of real bling. What I though was a $20 melt value, is actually 25g of 10k plus some nice stones. A $500+++ cross heading to eBay. Sal
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