Useful tips on Identifying and spotting fake Gold Jewelries

All of us love gorgeous pieces of gold known as Gold Jewelry! Be it Gold Ring or Gold Chain or Gold Necklace or anything else. With the increased popularity and usage of as 18 Carat Gold jewelry such as Diamond Rings and Melbourne Wedding Bands, we have significantly noted increased number of incidents where fake jewelry pieces are being sold and supplied which cause you big in terms of your hard earned money.

So it is very necessary and important for you as a jewelry buyer to identify the real gold and the fake gold jewelry. To make you able to do this yourself, we are here presenting some useful and well known and well working tips.
 

Using magnifier or a magnifying glass is very easy and handful. Magnifier can be easily used to analyze the clasp of the gold jewelry such as Gold Chain. Use a magnifying glass to analyze the clasp of the gold chain. Look for any stamps or markings that identify what gold, if any, is in the jewelry piece. If the jewelry has a Gold Platted or Gold Filled or Gold Layered mark then the jewelry is not solid gold. Markings that identify the carat value such as 14k or 24k, are preferred, even though a sophisticated counterfeiter may also fake these marks. Some countries stamp the purity based on the parts per 10,000. For example, 9,999 means that 9,999 particles out of every 10,000 are gold.
 

Hold the piece of jewelry such as gold chain or gold ring closer to magnet so as to check if there is any attraction in between the gold jewelry and the magnet. A pure and real gold will never attracted to any magnetic field. If the chain or the ring is attracted to the magnet, then it is not pure gold, it could be made up of some other metals such as gold plated steel etc.
 

Smoothly rub a jewelry cleaning cloth over a specific section of the gold jewelry. Use the cloth as if you are trying to clean an old piece of jewelry. If the piece has been gold plated, this will rub away the plating so that it looks noticeably different than the rest of the piece of the jewelry.
 

Dip the gold piece into a cleaner solution that is formulated for sterling silver. After soaking the jewelry in the cleaning solution, allow it to sit for 24 hours. If the chain is fake gold or gold plated, it will be heavily oxidized and tarnished after 24 hours.
 

Apart from these tips there are many other scientific and standard methods that are widely used to test the quality and correctness of the gold jewelry. There are many Gold Testing laboratories which usually do the job for you.

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