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<p>[QUOTE="Aopocetx, post: 4291296, member: 19661"][ATTACH=full]345554[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]345555[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]345556[/ATTACH] Hello. Recently I came into ownership of a few very old pieces of jewelry. My diamond tester broke right before I got them. None of them had any corrosion or patina whatsoever and they all have yellow stones. Anyone have some ideas? Ofcourse they look like mine-cut diamonds (it's probably hard to do in pictures but in real life, if you really look, each diamond is just a little different - one will have a bigger table, one will have a smaller table, etc.) but at the same time, costume jewelry was supposed to imitate that. So going off the fact that the metal does NOT corrode or tarnish, it's a white metal but grayish (let's pretend it's platinum), and has these mine cut yellow stones, what do you guys think?</p><p><br /></p><p>Bonus: Victorian pewter portrait frame (I'm sure someone switched it out to a mirror)? Fleur de Lis design... It's completely black, guessing pewter. Does it turn this dark?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Aopocetx, post: 4291296, member: 19661"][ATTACH=full]345554[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]345555[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]345556[/ATTACH] Hello. Recently I came into ownership of a few very old pieces of jewelry. My diamond tester broke right before I got them. None of them had any corrosion or patina whatsoever and they all have yellow stones. Anyone have some ideas? Ofcourse they look like mine-cut diamonds (it's probably hard to do in pictures but in real life, if you really look, each diamond is just a little different - one will have a bigger table, one will have a smaller table, etc.) but at the same time, costume jewelry was supposed to imitate that. So going off the fact that the metal does NOT corrode or tarnish, it's a white metal but grayish (let's pretend it's platinum), and has these mine cut yellow stones, what do you guys think? Bonus: Victorian pewter portrait frame (I'm sure someone switched it out to a mirror)? Fleur de Lis design... It's completely black, guessing pewter. Does it turn this dark?[/QUOTE]
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