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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 462436, member: 2844&quot;]Wow patd, gorgeous bangle, and wow scouts, what a story!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie56" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>&#039;Bohemian gold&#039; or &#039;garnet gold&#039; is 6k gold, a fineness of .250. It was used for Bohemian made garnet jewellery during the second half of the 19th century.</p><p>Even when it was used it was considered below the legal content just about everywhere, and all sorts of fancy names were invented, like joujou gold, and Viertelgold, a German word meaning quarter gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most antique Bohemian made garnet jewellery is either 6k garnet gold, or tombak/tombac, a brass-like alloy. Some is gilded tombak, some is 8k gold, which was legal in some countries, and some is a slightly higher gold fineness.</p><p>Whatever metal it is set in, Bohemian garnet jewellery is very desirable. And it is always well-made, regardless of the metal used.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bohemian garnets were also exported for jewellery manufacture elsewhere.</p><p>Britain, Germany and the Netherlands were major Bohemian garnet jewellery manufacturers. That is where most higher fineness gold and vermeil (quality gold plated silver) garnet jewellery was made.</p><p>Some was also set in silver, especially in the Netherlands where silver mounted garnets were worn during certain stages of mourning. Mourning jewellery here in NL went from all black (jet, glass), to black and silver, to garnet and silver, to garnet and gold, and on to &#039;out-of-mourning&#039; jewellery in brighter colours.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your bracelet is very much in the Bohemian style, so I wouldn&#039;t be surprised if it was brought over by your great-grandfather from Hungary. Hungary and Bohemia were both part of the Austro-Hungarian empire.</p><p>Looking at the photos, not having it in hand, I think your bracelet could be tombak. But that is hard to say from a photograph, since 6k is such a low caratage. Testing will be difficult, most store bought testing sets don&#039;t test below 10k, and jewellers often can&#039;t test for 6k either.</p><p>If you have never seen any verdigris on it, it could be 6k Bohemian or garnet gold. Which can also develop verdigris<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" />, but not as easily as tombak.</p><p>Sorry I can&#039;t be more definite.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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