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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 912150, member: 5833"]Unless you can find a mark on the chain itself or have it tested, you really can't know what the metal is. Agree with komo. This has been cobbled together by an amateur. The lobster claw clasp is 14K GF. The link holding the ring the clasp hooks onto is marked Italy & 10K. Neither of these guarantees anything about the chain. The jump rings have been soldered closed, but lumpily.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]200975[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Apart from the holes drilled through them, are the beads solid or hollow? There was a fad in the early 1970s for necklaces of gold beads, either graduated or all one size. They were strung on braided wire, maybe some were on chain, because the beads would have sawed through cord. This looks like an attempt to make something that looks like that, with lower quality components.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 912150, member: 5833"]Unless you can find a mark on the chain itself or have it tested, you really can't know what the metal is. Agree with komo. This has been cobbled together by an amateur. The lobster claw clasp is 14K GF. The link holding the ring the clasp hooks onto is marked Italy & 10K. Neither of these guarantees anything about the chain. The jump rings have been soldered closed, but lumpily. [ATTACH=full]200975[/ATTACH] Apart from the holes drilled through them, are the beads solid or hollow? There was a fad in the early 1970s for necklaces of gold beads, either graduated or all one size. They were strung on braided wire, maybe some were on chain, because the beads would have sawed through cord. This looks like an attempt to make something that looks like that, with lower quality components.[/QUOTE]
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