Anyone Know Jewelry?

[hidin]

Don't have a picture but I think a description should suffice. I found a man's wedding band in my own yard about eight years back. Now the marking inside says nothing but "Solid Gold". I know its fairly old, the house has been here since about 1915. The marking gets me-when was solid gold used as a mark?
It was obviously lost when someone was burning trash and went through quite a few fires before I found it. I'm not interested in it's worth, just trying to give it an approximate date.

[Cfmct]

Hidin

I googled what you posted and even though the ring says "solid gold" it can be any of the different carats I saw 10k sold gold marking as well as 14 and 18k.. I think your best bet is to take it to a dealer who buys gold and have it acid tested.

[hidin]

Thanks. I figured it could be just about anything too, including a complete fake. : ) Solid gold seems to be such a vague marking. Maybe one of these days I'll have it tested.

What I would really like to know is if it ended up in the trash burn by accident or on purpose. I can just picture an angry husband or wife throwing it there out of spite!

[bugguy]

as long as you didnt find the finger i think your ok

[Golden]

the term solid gold on your ring could've have been loosely used in those days to state it was made of gold. But I would imagine the gold is made up with some other minerals. for it to be pure gold, it has to be 24 carat.