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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 5986037, member: 2844"]Keep checking the jewellery forum!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> We joolies experiment and test more than anyone in any other Antiquers discipline.</p><p>UV light, testing acid, lemon juice, acetone, Mohs hardness tester AKA Mary, Presidiums for those with deeper pockets, baking soda, simichrome, in plastic bag submerged in hot water, milk test, you mention it, we've exerimented with it.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie84" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Except for the dreaded hot pin test!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie90" alt=":stop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> The devil's work.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie93" alt=":vamp:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/eek.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Then there is kyra's advice to taste things, sometimes useful, but not always to be recommended.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie96" alt=":wacky:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie59" alt=":kiss:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And I must admit, I am personally reponsible for sending people into closets with a UV light, and for scaring Bronwen's neighbours with an eerie UV glow shining through the curtains.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie79" alt=":shame:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie81" alt=":shy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie86" alt=":sorry:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 5986037, member: 2844"]Keep checking the jewellery forum!:playful: We joolies experiment and test more than anyone in any other Antiquers discipline. UV light, testing acid, lemon juice, acetone, Mohs hardness tester AKA Mary, Presidiums for those with deeper pockets, baking soda, simichrome, in plastic bag submerged in hot water, milk test, you mention it, we've exerimented with it.:smuggrin: Except for the dreaded hot pin test!:stop: The devil's work.:vamp::eek: Then there is kyra's advice to taste things, sometimes useful, but not always to be recommended.:wacky::D:kiss: And I must admit, I am personally reponsible for sending people into closets with a UV light, and for scaring Bronwen's neighbours with an eerie UV glow shining through the curtains.:shame::shy::sorry:[/QUOTE]
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