Maybe gold drought ended.

[mikeraydj]

Today at the soccer field I found a lot of clad, then this rang up like a pulltab on the F5. Looks like gold and ruby.





Can't read the inside as the ring is small, (and old eyes and no magnifying glass) so am going to take it to be tested. Wish me luck, I hope I finally got some gold this year.

 

[SeabeeRon]

Sure looks good!! Let us know!

 

[RJ55]

Nice looking ring

 

[mikeraydj]

Tested 14k electroplate. Sh**. The hunt continues.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Boo!

 

[qaela4]

I was going to say by the looks of the right hand side it looks plated . Still a nice looking ring for the collection!

 

[ajaj]

Boo Part 2. Keep up the hunts!

aj

 

[SeabeeRon]

Tested 14k electroplate. Sh**. The hunt continues.

To bad, it is still a looker! They sure make some nice looking "fake" gold rings now!

 

[Loco-Digger]

Nice find, I always get excited if I see a glimmer of yellow metal. Most of the time is just plated, but love the feeling anyway. Maybe next time.

 

[Skippy SH13]

Tested 14k electroplate. Sh**. The hunt continues.

The sides looked too sharp.. I've been hopeful a few times like that myself. One of the first things I'll do is put that sucker on the high speed drill buffer and polish the gold. if the "gold" wears away, instead of polishing, it's a dead give-away. I even had one stamped 14K, that was nothing more than HGE. THAT was a bummer...

 

[Brother Al]

An acid test kit is available for 14.95 on ebay. Free shipping. I just used it to confirm a 2.5 lb. Find of coin silver from an old house fire

 

[JimDon]

Don't trust markings either. The amount of fake 14kt marked items is amazing. About 25% of rings and 95% of 14kt gold chains I dig turn out to be fake. I bet there are a lot on this forum who have gold in lock boxes that did not acid check them that are fake. It really sucks.

 

[pepperj]

Well it was good while it lasted, one of those nitro moments.

Two ways of looking at this, you could invest in buying a good magnifying glass and kill the thought of finding the real gold right away-or just stay half blind and have that happy feeling for a few hrs/days until you get it tested.

 

[NEPADIGGER7]

Looks like gold to me...I think of it was ge if would be peeling by now...great find!

 

[mikeraydj]

Thanks for the support. I know the fun is in the hunt. This year has been slow compared to last.