Gold and Palladium rings this morning!

[KapHI808]

It was a beautiful, rainy morning. I had the whole beach to myself! This is my Excalibur's first rings after going from a 10" to an 8". I really like this smaller coil! Anyways, 7.97 gram 18k gold ring (not sure about the color, not white and not yellow, kinda champagne) and a 9.95 gram Palladium Scott Kay ring. Fun morning!! HH

 

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[Talon]

Nice rings! Do those palladium ones have much resale value?

 

[Les West Central Fl]

Looks like you did great! Congrats on the nice finds.

 

[cdv1]

Sweet, any day you get a ring is good, two is twice as good.... Congrats on some nice finds.

Cliff

 

[bigscoop]

That small coil certainly has it's advantages at times.

 

[ron lord]

Nice Find !!!!!

 

[DrJoePrime]

Congrats! Very nice rings to find.

I've never found a palladium ring...current melt value is just under $670 per ounce ( Precious Metal Calculator from Dendritics (Original Version)) ... but that ring is too nice to melt!

 

[KapHI808]

Thank you for all the kind comments everyone and for the Precious metal calculator DrJoePrime. Whats funny is that I called a friend who does lost jewelry recovery to see if anyone reported lost any rings from that beach. I gave a description of the rings and said that the Palladium ring had an inscription of "ScottKay". He told me that it wasn't an inscription but a manufacturer name. After using your calculator and finding that ring online (Gothic Scott Kay Palladium 10mm) I see that the melt value is $206 and it sells for $1370!

This was my first 18K ring. Besides white gold, are there any other varieties?

 

[Beach Papa]

Thank you for all the kind comments everyone and for the Precious metal calculator DrJoePrime. Whats funny is that I called a friend who does lost jewelry recovery to see if anyone reported lost any rings from that beach. I gave a description of the rings and said that the Palladium ring had an inscription of "ScottKay". He told me that it wasn't an inscription but a manufacturer name. After using your calculator and finding that ring online (Gothic Scott Kay Palladium 10mm) I see that the melt value is $206 and it sells for $1370!

This was my first 18K ring. Besides white gold, are there any other varieties?

There is yellow, white and rose gold. It is possible that your ring is rose gold which has a slight copper color to the gold, but it is also possible that the white gold is losing some of its white color. In years past, white gold was an alloy of metals mixed together in the molten state. I have a 43 year old white gold wedding band that is still just as white as the day my new wife put it on my finger. However, to cut corners, today sometimes white gold is actually made as yellow gold with an applied rodium finish. Rodium produces a brighter white color than the white gold alloy, but it can be worn off and allow the yellow gold to show through giving the ring a yellow cast to a white gold ring. I have found a white gold wedding band with a yellow cast to it, indicating the finish was partially worn off either by being tumbled in the surf or before it was lost. Look up rose gold on the internet and let us know what you have going with your off color ring. HH, Papa

 

[KapHI808]

Thank you for all that great info Beach Papa. After reading the Wiki on Colored gold ( Colored gold - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ) and looking at pictures of Rose Gold, I think it is white gold that has either lost its rhodium plating or never had it (like you mentioned). The wiki says "The term "white" covers a large spectrum of colors that borders or overlaps pale yellow, tinted brown, and even very pale rose".

The more I find, the more I research, and the more I learn.

Mahalo

 

[Beach Papa]

Mahalo,
Another possibility that I did not mention yesterday is that the gold ring could be a fake and be marked 18k but be only gold plated over copper. Unfortunately, I was cleaning some of my gold last evening and after I put Tarnex on a bracelet, it turned a rose color is several spots. It is marked 14k, but has turned out to be a fake. It is my second fake 14k marked jewelry. Hope this is not the case for your ring. Papa

 

[KapHI808]

Shucks! I hope that's not the case. I guess it's time for a gold testing kit. Thanks for the info.

 

[lookindown]

Great hunt and two great rings...Ive found a couple of white gold rings that have the same color as the one you found.

 

[KapHI808]

I was wondering if the stamped "Diana" is a brand or the owners name? It doesn't appear to be engraved.

 

[dven55]

use nitric acid on gold to determine wether a fake or real. Real will not react with the acid...fake will fizzle and bubble.