How to Identify Gold Jewelry

It is human’s nature of being curious about many things, of course the fake or true is included. Have you ever gone through that time of want to know whether your jewelry is true of false? It is very normal because we ordinary people lack the technical skill to identify authenticity. Also, we may get our gold, silver, platinum jewelry, or other material jewelry madding out of stainless steel, coral, crystal glass and so on, from our friends who sent them to me as a gift or relatives who pass them down to us, or we bought a piece of jewelry from hardware shoppes, auctions or estate sales for ourselves and were not sure whether the pieces of jewelry were authentic. According to the United States’ standard, if a piece of gold is measured to be less than ten Karats, then it could be deemed as fake. When you want to know if your gold and metals like this is genuine or not, you can of course seek for help from a reliable certified jewelry testing center and make your jewelry tested. That is always a very reliable way and rarely goes wrong. If you are bothered to go out for the professional test, you can test it by yourself. Here you can find a list of tips to teach you how to judge your gold jewelry are real or fake.

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FAKE Gold Earrings

The post/wire etc. that goes into ear will be base metal colored and the rest of the earring will be gold tone in color; they won’t match

FAKE Gold Rings

The shank will show signs of wear, usually the plating has worn off and the base metal beneath shows through

They will have stamps of HGP (heavy gold plate) HEG (heavy gold electro-plate) GF (gold filled) or “10k” “14k” no manufacturer’s stamp or no markings at all

FAKE Gold Rings

Pay attention to the surface of your jewelry. For fake, the plate is easy to worn off so that you could see the base metal beneath easily. The shank of your jewelry may show indication of being abrasion.

Pay attention to stamps or labels on your gold rings or other jewelry. In general, keep under observation on it and you will find a stamp of HGP (heavy gold plate) HEG (heavy gold electro-plate) GF (gold filled) or “10k” “14k” on it. Also, you are hard to find a stamp showing who its manufacture is.

FAKE Gold Bracelets

They will have stamps of HGP (heavy gold plate) HEG (heavy gold electro-plate) GF (gold filled)

They will show signs of wear, usually the plating has worn off and the base metal beneath shows through

Most bangles will have a fraction and then “GF” Gold Filled; ex: 1/5 GF

FAKE Gold Add-A-Beads

Real gold is not easy to be dented. As what mentioned before, America sets 14 Karat as the standard, is certainly with reasons. In fact, all gold jewelry whose gold content is below 14 Karat dent by small squeeze, teeth, fingers and so on. Fake beads have little resistance for any pressure.

Also, the way is available for all gold jewelry – depend on a magnet. Real gold can’t be attracted by gold. So if your gold jewelry can be appealed by a magnet, it is a fake one. But your jewelry which is not attracted by your magnet is not necessarily real.

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