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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 4339647, member: 2844&quot;]People are doing their best to help. You get what you get, here on antiquers.</p><p><br /></p><p>That is 135,000 years, give or take, and it covers every continent except for Antarctica. So impossible to answer.</p><p>Maybe you could be more specific, for instance: &quot;How do I recognize Aesthetic period jewellery?&quot; Replies to that could fill a few pages.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Another could have been: &quot;How do I minimize making mistakes when trying to buy gold jewellery?&quot;</p><p>But I think that question has pretty much been answered by the excellent replies above.</p><p>As [USER=36]@evelyb30[/USER] said, you never put the acid on jewellery, you rub an inconspicuous part of the jewel on a testing stone and place the acid on the rub line on the stone. As she also said, even that isn&#039;t 100% proof, but it is a start.</p><p><br /></p><p>Other than that, study jewellery history. The top four threads of the jewelry forum contain links and other resources:</p><p><a href="https://www.antiquers.com/forums/jewelry.20/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/forums/jewelry.20/">https://www.antiquers.com/forums/jewelry.20/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Pre-1906, a 130,000 yrs old Neanderthal eagle talon necklace found in Croatia:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]358165[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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