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<p>[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 4339402, member: 36"]The piece is scratched on a testing stone. Acid doesn't go anywhere near the piece unless the whole thing is going into the melting pot if it's gold. Good Victorian gold-filled can fool most tests, including the scratch test, so part of it is just good eyeballs. Experience. Even that isn't fool-proof.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 4339402, member: 36"]The piece is scratched on a testing stone. Acid doesn't go anywhere near the piece unless the whole thing is going into the melting pot if it's gold. Good Victorian gold-filled can fool most tests, including the scratch test, so part of it is just good eyeballs. Experience. Even that isn't fool-proof.[/QUOTE]
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