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<p>[QUOTE="Houseful, post: 2688919, member: 1067"]Well I have some info from the jewellers which seems to make sense. She confirmed the emeralds were indeed paste and there were real diamonds, some of them she said were rather dark and maybe some could be white sapphires, she didn’t use a tester she just looked through a loupe for a good 15 minutes and her conclusion was that the earrings were likely replicas hence the showy fronts and closed in backs and ordered for various reasons ie originals sold etc. She said it would cost me a bit to test the metal so I declined but I’ve just done a silver test at home and they are silver! So likely the NG mark is from sterling. They are heavy to wear as earrings, wouldn’t take much effort to get them there but do you think they would make a couple of nice rings? </p><p>[ATTACH=full]274108[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]274109[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Houseful, post: 2688919, member: 1067"]Well I have some info from the jewellers which seems to make sense. She confirmed the emeralds were indeed paste and there were real diamonds, some of them she said were rather dark and maybe some could be white sapphires, she didn’t use a tester she just looked through a loupe for a good 15 minutes and her conclusion was that the earrings were likely replicas hence the showy fronts and closed in backs and ordered for various reasons ie originals sold etc. She said it would cost me a bit to test the metal so I declined but I’ve just done a silver test at home and they are silver! So likely the NG mark is from sterling. They are heavy to wear as earrings, wouldn’t take much effort to get them there but do you think they would make a couple of nice rings? [ATTACH=full]274108[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]274109[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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