How To Identify Gold Jewelry

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There are some types which are easy to confuse with gold jewelry and usually dazzled people, such as the plated gold jewelry, leaf-gilding jewelry, copper jewelry or some other copper alloy ornaments. If we could not distinguish them clear, we may make a bad bargain.

Gold-plated jewelry: It is a kind of jewelry that needs to be coated with a layer of gold on the surface of other metal jewelry under the electroplating technique. The color is so similar with the real gold jewelry that difficult to identify when they are new. However, gold-plated jewelry are light in weight, hard in texture, color-changed for long time and there is no marks after biting. Some jewelry with bad electroplating will look red or white.

Leaf-gilding jewelry: They are wrapped with 24K or 22K gold foil on the surf of other metal jewelry (If the foil's K number is too low, it will have poor flexibility.) This kind of jewelry is bright and difficult to fade so that they are more similar with real gold jewelry. But we could distinguish them from a closer look, like depression part or back, etc where the foils are irregularity. For example, if ...
... there is a broken connector, we could see this section the jewelry with yellow outside and white inner. Besides, leaf-gilding jewelry are also lighter in weight and harder than gold jewelry, so there will be not easy to leave marks after biting and bend.

Copper Jewelry: This kind of jewelry is yellow inclining to red, shiny dark, soft texture and light weight.

Copper alloy jewelry: Its color is white, and it will be fade after long time wearing. (This kind of jewelry may make people's skin change black)

No matter which kind of jewelry, gold-plated, copper jewelry or others, they are generally not sign as well as the gold jewelry, or the sign is different from gold jewelry's sign, such as some may engrave with letters "GK" which means "gold-plated". So we customers should adopt to identify jewelry from these marks.

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