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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;J Dagger, post: 9680813, member: 10944&quot;]I came to say this! I bought one once. Marked sterling in a visible spot. Days later looked at it again in better light at a different angle. Sure enough marked alpaca before they folded it over. Contacted the estate ale runner who had sold it to me as sterling. He sent a Morgan dollar and a set of collar studs as an apology. I thought that was awfully generous. If that happened now I’d blame myself for not looking closer and not think to contact the sale runner. I was brand new to buying metal at the time. I also bought at 12k gold chain at the sale. A couple years later I decided go sell it. Had a guy buy and pay for it. Before shipping it examined it again for the first time since buying. It occurred to me that in the years since buying it I had very rarely seen 12k gold chains. I looked closer at the mark, then closer still. Something looked odd. Kept looking at it and realized that someone had rubbed off the fraction. 1/20 or 1/10 probably to indicate gold filled. One could speculate it happened accidentally over time with friction. However it was just about perfect. A newbie would have never caught it. Looking back on the sale and the alpaca piece marked sterling I started to think about that seller. Was he really being generous and wanting to make sure he had a satisfied customer or did he have a guilty conscious knowing that he also sold me GF as solid gold in addition to alpaca marked sterling. Was he the one who applied the bad sterling mark and rubbed off the necklace clasp? Was he just the one that moved the items on knowingly? Did he not know? I’ll never know. I cancelled the sale and refunded my buyer. Live and learn as they say!</p><p><br /></p><p>I like to generally think I can spot silver amongst other metals. When it comes to jewelry with general southwestern/Mexican type vibes of a certain era I dial back my confidence. Some of that alpaca type stuff can look pretty good.</p><p><br /></p><p>edit: based on these photos it doesn’t look like silver or turquoise to me. Hope I’m wrong![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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