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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Joan, post: 9608986, member: 5398&quot;]Thank you, Lucille. I bought it in a small town antique mall. It was in a glass case and my eyes were immediately drawn to it, but since it wasn&#039;t marked, I didn&#039;t think it was karat gold. I&#039;d been interested in antique and vintage jewelry for years and used to pore over Warman&#039;s Jewelry book and others before I discovered Google, eBay, and Antiquers.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve only used a jeweler for testing gold a couple of times. She has a small studio and doesn&#039;t have an XRF machine, but has a Mizar electronic gold tester. She used it to test a platinum necklace that was marked in Chinese and an Italian enameled gold circle pin that was half-marked 14k on the pin stem. The Mizar confirmed 14k on the pin stem and the jeweler said the circle part was higher than 14k, possibly 18k, but she couldn&#039;t say definitely. </p><p><br /></p><p>Since you mentioned the story about the mystery piece that tested 22k, I&#039;m thinking my set could actually be 22k also, so I&#039;ll have it tested, but I don&#039;t know how accurate the Mizar tester is for high karat gold.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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