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<p>[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 9834981, member: 29"]You can’t, in law, describe it as gold or silver unless it’s appropriately marked, even if tested. You can use a term like tests as but you still can’t call it gold. </p><p><br /></p><p>And agreed, good auction houses won’t acid or scratch test, it’s destructive. There’s some pretty large ones who use the yellow metal term, too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 9834981, member: 29"]You can’t, in law, describe it as gold or silver unless it’s appropriately marked, even if tested. You can use a term like tests as but you still can’t call it gold. And agreed, good auction houses won’t acid or scratch test, it’s destructive. There’s some pretty large ones who use the yellow metal term, too.[/QUOTE]
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