Gold Ring!

[SammyDaBull]

So i hunt mostly cellar holes and old homesteads. We bought a 100+ year old house in June last year, and found this in the front yard about 8" down on Sunday!

 

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[BigWaveDave]

Probably a wedding ring from a previous owner of your place.... Congrats!

 

[TRanegar36]

Very nice!!

Congrats

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Sweet! Congrats! Old gold!

 

[eyemustdigtreasure]

nice find!
What's the karats..?

 

[Calabash Digger]

cool find ! still waiting on my first gold.

 

[SammyDaBull]

Says "18" and has a crown, thats it for markings.. I haven't been able to find the same crown though, so im not sure purity.

nice find!
What's the karats..?

 

[SammyDaBull]

This is my first!

cool find ! still waiting on my first gold.

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on the gold ring

 

[OBN]

Very nice first gold, Just a tip I have seen some with that hallmark that were real, and a few that were not solid gold. More rolled gold over a base metal. I'll see if I can find the post. Most were found I believe on the east coast, one was in Pa and the others were eastern shore Delmarva area's. The crown stands for gold

 

[MrBlueSkyNM]

Nice! "Precious"

 

[BagLady]

Nice ring. Looks like if you clean it up, it may have some gemstones around the middle where it's tarnished.

 

[toasted]

I have a ring that looks just like that. I assummed that tarnish around the center meant gold plated or something. Its marked 18k= Check it out

 

[SammyDaBull]

Yup, that was my thoughts as well. Must be plated. Still nice find though!!

And Thanks everyone!

I have a ring that looks just like that. I assumed that tarnish around the center meant gold plated or something. Its marked 18k= Check it out

 

[ARC]

Hmmm same ring from another thread ?

IMO... gold plated.

 

[against the wind]

Hey Sammy, ,
You got any friends in NYC?, , lol
Nice find

 

[Rustynailsandscrews]

Plated or rolled gold over brass. I was in the jewelry bizz years ago and have seen this many times. It was common for crooked jewelers to use fake KT marks on plated or rolled brass. Legitimate pieces of gold plated or rolled gold were sold by legitimate jewelers but were stamped GF ( gold filled ), GP ( gold plate ) or RG ( rolled gold ). Very often these processes where used on pocket watches. Many times some one would come into my shop with the so called solid gold pocket watch passed down in the family asking what it is worth only to be very disappointed that it's plated with gold and worth a couple of hundred dollars in good condition and in working order. I have seen a few watches that where actually gold but they came from very wealthy families. Common people could never afford such a thing in the past or even today. Gold in a 24 KT state is a very soft metal and will wear quickly. Yellow gold is mixed with an alloy of brass. 24 KT being pure gold. 18 KT means 18 parts of gold mixed with 6 parts of brass, 14 KT means 14 parts gold to 10 parts of brass, 10 KT is 10 parts of gold to 14 parts of brass mixed as alloy. Price point is often a consideration when people select KT weight with 10 KT naturally being less expensive and the most durable because of it's brass content giving it strength.
Your ring that you found is very obviously plated with gold over brass and it's not an alloy. It having no other marks other then 18KT means the person that lost it was ripped off when they bought it. That's it for today's jewelry lesson.

 

[SammyDaBull]

Awesome to know! I suspected it wasn't pure by the wear and corrosion. It does have a crown stamp, but the research i've found from it doesn't really make me think anything more. I messaged the previous owners of our house asking if anyone lost a wedding band. Sentimental value might be worth more than the actual value

Plated or rolled gold over brass. I was in the jewelry bizz years ago and have seen this many times. It was common for crooked jewelers to use fake KT marks on plated or rolled brass. Legitimate pieces of gold plated or rolled gold were sold by legitimate jewelers but were stamped GF ( gold filled ), GP ( gold plate ) or RG ( rolled gold ). Very often these processes where used on pocket watches. Many times some one would come into my shop with the so called solid gold pocket watch passed down in the family asking what it is worth only to be very disappointed that it's plated with gold and worth a couple of hundred dollars in good condition and in working order. I have seen a few watches that where actually gold but they came from very wealthy families. Common people could never afford such a thing in the past or even today. Gold in a 24 KT state is a very soft metal and will wear quickly. Yellow gold is mixed with an alloy of brass. 24 KT being pure gold. 18 KT means 18 parts of gold mixed with 6 parts of brass, 14 KT means 14 parts gold to 10 parts of brass, 10 KT is 10 parts of gold to 14 parts of brass mixed as alloy. Price point is often a consideration when people select KT weight with 10 KT naturally being less expensive and the most durable because of it's brass content giving it strength.
Your ring that you found is very obviously plated with gold over brass and it's not an alloy. It having no other marks other then 18KT means the person that lost it was ripped off when they bought it. That's it for today's jewelry lesson.