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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 9739858, member: 2844&quot;]Very nice find, charlie.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Similar, doublé is roughly the same as rolled gold. Rolled gold is a layer of gold applied by pressure. Doublé gold can be applied by pressure or welded. It is a Continental term (and technique).</p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect your watch chain and fob are German. Germany also uses the term Amerikaner Gold or Amerikaner Doublé, so there is a possibility the A stands for Amerikaner.</p><p><br /></p><p>About the term Amerikaner:</p><p>The Amerikaner Doublé technique was invented in Austria, but it was adopted in the US during the Civil War period when gold was scarce. For years Austria and Germany continued to use mainly gold, but the US makers had to use doublé, so doublé came to be known in Austria and Germany as &quot;Americans gold&quot; or Amerikaner Gold or Amerikaner Doublé.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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