Featured GOLD GOLD GOLD! NO Silver but a GOLD Bracelet W/ HALLMARKS

This beautiful bracelet was given to my mother on her 16th birthday. She's now 86! Anyway, we are positive it is gold but can't make out the hallmarks. We are leaning towards it being French hallmarks because my mother is French and this was purchased in the town where she lived (near Paris). These hallmarks are super-duper tiny! Any help would be appreciated!

 

That would have been 1950.

Debora

 

nice gift !

 

Looks like French marks. French poinçons are notoriously difficult to read on a lot of items. I find gold marks harder to read than silver.

 

Gorgeous bangle. French and antique, I think ca 1890s.
I tweaked one of your photos a bit, and I think I see the horse's head mark on the lower left. The horse's head is a provincial gold guarantee mark, used between 1838 and 1919.



The lozenge shaped mark is a typical French maker's mark.

@kyratango !

 

So if she was given this in the 1950s, maybe was a family heirloom due to age. It is gorgeous! Great job with the close-up photos, those marks are tiny!

 

@Any Jewelry since your image was the best, I ran it through my filter, which maybe enhanced it a little.....upper right.....could that be a person with a crown on???? ​

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Tres beau! ❤️

 

I don't think the French have a mark of a person with a crown on, at least not during that period. It could be a regional mark.
Waiting for kyra....

 

Yes, it originally belonged to my mother's mother. So is this typically 10K, 14K or 18K?

 

French gold of the period was .900, which is just under 22k, .840, which is just over 20k, or .750 which is 18k. It is usually marked with a tiny number 1, 2, or 3 in the gold mark.
So the bracelet is likely to be 18k or over.

Continental Western Europe generally doesn't accept 10k as gold, because the gold content is only 37.5%.

 

Absolutely agree with you, horse head, era and all
I call this red gold, but generally called rose gold

 

Here is the horse head hallmark:

 

Are you calling me a horse head?!
Thanks for the approval.

 

OOhh nooo!!! You are a... Dragon head!

 

And head dragon.

 

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thanks again for all the info!