gold ID bracelet

can someone help read this hallmark on my family heirloom, i think its a clover or spade with a sun or star above it to the right and i think a L below left of it.
here are some pics , thanks

 

Welcome, @tracey mitchell !

I think this request would have more people look at it in the Jewelry forum area. @daveydempsey could you move the thread, please?

 

Welcome, Tracey. Do you know anything in your family history that would support the idea that this came from the Middle East?

 

Great grandfather was stationed over there during war , I remember as a child him telling me stories and show me a flower he picked and pressed in a bible from Cairo I think?

 

interesting...i had a similar necklace....same chain....same closure.....bought here new, in the late 70's...

 

I asked because the square box ('cartouche') the mark is in is typical of Egyptian marks. However, the marks themselves don't look right. Maybe just extremely sloppy. Could be the mark for 18K, which looks like IΛ.

 

It looks like a man's ID bracelet, circa 1960s, that was popular in the U.S. If I'm remembering correctly, a guy would give it to his girlfriend and it would signify they were going steady.

 

Saw this sometimes in junior high & high school, giving an ID bracelet as a sign they were going steady. In my working class town, the bracelets were not gold, though. Probably not even solid silver.

 

I don't remember that they were precious metal, either. The bracelets were thick and heavy, so would have been very expensive in gold or silver.

 

Yes this is definitely gold and not magnetic at all

 

You would have to have fineness tested to know if my guess about 18K is correct. 14K is not standard for Egypt; 12, 18 & 21 are most common.

 

Hi,
Back then in the 1950s gold was only 35 dollars an ounce. Silver was so cheap. My first silver link bracelet was only 12 dollars. When I sold it in the 70s I got over 300 dollars for scrap. My in-laws gold wedding bands were only 20 dollars for TWO of them.
greg

 

Wow, how times have changed

 

Hi,
The Government set the price of gold when they went off the gold standard. It remained the same for years. Then the standard went off and the price began to soar.
greg

 

Himself bought me a gold ingot in Dubai - just under an ounce, supposedly to be worn as a pendant. I think it cost him about £140. A few years later, with his agreement, I hasten to add, I sold it for four times that and bought an iPad!

 

You probably know that not being attracted to a magnet is not a test for gold, all it tells you is there is no iron or steel in the piece. It is in effect a negative test, it only tells you what it is not, not what it is

 

ok guys i have the closest possible picture of the hallmark on the gold ID bracelet, here comes the picture. fingers crossed some one can help me identify it.

 

i can definatley see a spade [off a deck of cards] or 3 leaf clover.
a capital L below the clover and it looks to be a star or sun above right?

 

there is another little star i think sitting above left of the clover also