Joshc214
Senior Member
Went out on a quick morning hunt today. I was planning on hitting multiple locations and making a day trip out of it, but within the first hour I found this gold ring with a nice size diamond and decided to call it a day...
I've never seen gold come out of the water this tarnished. It has an 18k mark on the inside which made even less since... 18k shouldn't tarnish, right?
As soon as I got home I pulled out the diamond tester and tested the diamond.. didn't check out, so I guess it's either cz or some other type of gemstone. After that I pulled out my acid tests, the 18k acid test ate the gold in .1 seconds, definitely not 18k... next I did 10k and that passed, so I tried 14, seemed to hold but it was hard to judge.
In order to get rid of all the tarnish I used the silver cleaning method (salt & baking soda). It took 4 rounds, but finally managed to shine up. Its actually a rose gold, hard to see in the pic though.
IMO this is a 10 or 14k ring that a Jeweler tried to sell as 18k, what do you guys think?
I've never seen gold come out of the water this tarnished. It has an 18k mark on the inside which made even less since... 18k shouldn't tarnish, right?
As soon as I got home I pulled out the diamond tester and tested the diamond.. didn't check out, so I guess it's either cz or some other type of gemstone. After that I pulled out my acid tests, the 18k acid test ate the gold in .1 seconds, definitely not 18k... next I did 10k and that passed, so I tried 14, seemed to hold but it was hard to judge.
In order to get rid of all the tarnish I used the silver cleaning method (salt & baking soda). It took 4 rounds, but finally managed to shine up. Its actually a rose gold, hard to see in the pic though.
IMO this is a 10 or 14k ring that a Jeweler tried to sell as 18k, what do you guys think?