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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 379510, member: 25&quot;]I have never seen anything marked LD as an abbreviation. More likely a maker&#039;s mark.</p><p>Typical with that sort of locket is the common 9ct Back and Front marking indicating the construction is of base metal for the rims with a thin sheet of 9ct forming the back and front.</p><p>It must be British a no-one else uses that as a gold standard and what one might imagine &#039;lined&#039; to mean would be adequately and normally described as rolled gold. Gold plating would not be described as 9ct. Worn 9 catat can look brassy if it was flashed with a higher carat finish. This is sometimes done for a better colour.</p><p>I think it is probably all gold. Not much actual value though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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