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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 611046, member: 2844&quot;]Barn, very good question, and as you see, there is no simple answer, except get a testing kit.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie76" alt=":pompous:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>The first one you showed is almost certainly gold, the others could be.</p><p><br /></p><p>This one looked like tarnished brass, so could have been tombak or something resembling pinchbeck.</p><p>It was cheap, sold as costume, but it turned out to be 8k gold (Austro-Hungarian, they often had low finenesses). I suspected as much, given the delicately enameled details, which you wouldn&#039;t see on Bohemian costume.</p><p>There is still a lot of very persistent black goo which I am still in the process of cleaning out, especially behind the central rosette. The cleaned bits reveal minute stippling.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]179648[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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