These gotta be gold

[tamrock]

I picked up these deep rich yellow gold tone earrings yesterday for cheap. They're un-market, but not machine made and appear all handmade in the way the post and pins are hammered. For as small as they are, weighing in at 4 grams plus the way they're constructed is a good indication they are solid gold. I'll run them by pawn shop and ask what they might give for them. Being there are no marks they'll do a scratch and acid test, before they'll decide with an answer. To me they have a color of higher than 14k gold and may even be higher than 18k.

 

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[pepperj]

Nice buy.

They have a Southeastern Asian look to them.
The design work is very similar to what the Bali gold/silversmiths produce.
20kt+ would be my guess.

 

[minerjosh]

Nice those do look real. Keep us posted on the acid test results. Once I was in an antique mall thing were there are several different vendors selling stuff and I picked up a homemade cross that was made out of who knows what, it looked like old brass but it had small gold nuggets covering the front of it. $10 and it had at least a pennyweight of gold soldered to it. It was definitely an amateur job that looked bad but cheap gold is still gold

 

[scruggs]

They look very nice!

 

[niffler]

Yes they sure look high karat, nice score

 

[angelito1]

definitely nice look to them prolly 21k

 

[tamrock]

Today I took these earrings to the coin dealer near by along with some sterling spoons to unload for cash, so I'm not just being a pest in getting these earrings tested for my own good. They shot one with an xrf gun and it read 85% gold. They're around 20k solid gold and their scale weighed them at 3.1 grams where mine weighed them at 4 grams. They said they'd give me $160. for them, but I instead let the silver spoons go for $56.00 which weighed 104 grams of sterling. Seems They're paying about 20% lest than spot. The owner of the shop used to give me 10 or 15% off spot, but he's never there anymore and has these younger employees doing all the buying and selling now.

 

[minerjosh]

Today I took these earrings to the coin dealer near by along with some sterling spoons to unload for cash, so I'm not just being a pest in getting these earrings tested for my own good. They shot one with an xrf gun and it read 85% gold. They're around 20k solid gold and their scale weighed them at 3.1 grams where mine weighed them at 4 grams. They said they'd give me $160. for them, but I instead let the silver spoons go for $56.00 which weighed 104 grams of sterling. Seems They're paying about 20% lest than spot. The owner of the shop used to give me 10 or 15% off spot, but he's never there anymore and has these younger employees doing all the buying and selling now

Today I took these earrings to the coin dealer near by along with some sterling spoons to unload for cash, so I'm not just being a pest in getting these earrings tested for my own good. They shot one with an xrf gun and it read 85% gold. They're around 20k solid gold and their scale weighed them at 3.1 grams where mine weighed them at 4 grams. They said they'd give me $160. for them, but I instead let the silver spoons go for $56.00 which weighed 104 grams of sterling. Seems They're paying about 20% lest than spot. The owner of the shop used to give me 10 or 15% off spot, but he's never there anymore and has these younger employees doing all the buying and selling now.

Very cool they are very real! Honestly $160 for 3.1 grams of 20k is really close to spot. Like $10 off. Sounds like a fair offer to me

 

[tamrock]

Very cool they are very real! Honestly $160 for 3.1 grams of 20k is really close to spot. Like $10 off. Sounds like a fair offer to me

Yeah maybe the silver isn't as good. That I'll cash in at times. They must give more for the gold to hold on to in hopes its going higher. I've been hanging on the gold jewelry, because it generally sells above spot on places like eBay.