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<p>[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 3460583, member: 111"]The items would, as said, need to tested - the National Stamping Act provided that <i>if</i> an item was stamped, it would have to meet the indicated fineness - the 'Solid Gold' stamp had no numeric indicator, so was usually used on lower karat gold. Jeweler trade associations, as well as state legislation, usually suggested either 9K or 10K as minimum fineness for 'Solid Gold', though that was certainly no guarantee (the last piece I had tested was 10K)...</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 3460583, member: 111"]The items would, as said, need to tested - the National Stamping Act provided that [I]if[/I] an item was stamped, it would have to meet the indicated fineness - the 'Solid Gold' stamp had no numeric indicator, so was usually used on lower karat gold. Jeweler trade associations, as well as state legislation, usually suggested either 9K or 10K as minimum fineness for 'Solid Gold', though that was certainly no guarantee (the last piece I had tested was 10K)... ~Cheryl[/QUOTE]
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