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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 378222, member: 2844"]In most European countries 10k gold has too little gold content to be legal, they usually start with 14k, 585.</p><p>The only European countries that I know of who accept 10k (and under) are Britain, Germany, and Italy.</p><p>Britain requires full marks above a certain weight, which this is, so we can strike that off the list.</p><p>Germany and Italy can be quite sloppy with marks, but Italy uses a cartouche around the fineness number (as do nearly all European countries).</p><p>That leaves Germany, if the provenance is European.</p><p>But there are other possibilities, it could be an older (not antique) Australian or New Zealand mark, for instance.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 378222, member: 2844"]In most European countries 10k gold has too little gold content to be legal, they usually start with 14k, 585. The only European countries that I know of who accept 10k (and under) are Britain, Germany, and Italy. Britain requires full marks above a certain weight, which this is, so we can strike that off the list. Germany and Italy can be quite sloppy with marks, but Italy uses a cartouche around the fineness number (as do nearly all European countries). That leaves Germany, if the provenance is European. But there are other possibilities, it could be an older (not antique) Australian or New Zealand mark, for instance.[/QUOTE]
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