jimther
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Off to the market today and feelin' down 
with the COINSTAR reject tray empty. Returning to the car, with just the groceries to show for my trip, my ground-scanning eyeballs pick up a flash of gold color in the crack where concrete meets curbstone.
Reaching down to retrieve what I figured was a piece of cheap costume jewelry, I was surprised by the weight... and there's 3 clear stones. The metal has some tiny dings, but maybe it's a real gold stud earring. I'll wait till I get home to check it out.
Did I mention that it felt heavy ? With my jeweler's loupe, I see a 750 on the stake part of the earring. The three stones appear to be well set; diamonds possibly, if this is 18K, but there's crud all around them. A quick pass with a soapy old toothbrush clears out the crud and the shiny stones are blinding me now ! Our club has a diamond tester, so I'll have them checked out at our meeting on Friday.
OK, so the total weight is 2.5 grams and the overall diameter of the crescent part of the gold is about 1 centimeter. The stones are gradually increasing in size and the largest is about 3mm in diameter.
Any ideas how much of the 2.5 grams total that the gold is versus the stones ? I was guessing maybe 2.0 grams of 18K and 0.5 grams of stones. That seem about right? Photo below:
4:10 PM Edit - I just looked again at the underside of the crescent part of the gold and can clearly see a partial 18K. I say partial, because there are holes at the bottom of each stone setting and one wiped out the '1' in the 18K, so it is now reading 8K.
jimther
with the COINSTAR reject tray empty. Returning to the car, with just the groceries to show for my trip, my ground-scanning eyeballs pick up a flash of gold color in the crack where concrete meets curbstone. Reaching down to retrieve what I figured was a piece of cheap costume jewelry, I was surprised by the weight... and there's 3 clear stones. The metal has some tiny dings, but maybe it's a real gold stud earring. I'll wait till I get home to check it out.
Did I mention that it felt heavy ? With my jeweler's loupe, I see a 750 on the stake part of the earring. The three stones appear to be well set; diamonds possibly, if this is 18K, but there's crud all around them. A quick pass with a soapy old toothbrush clears out the crud and the shiny stones are blinding me now ! Our club has a diamond tester, so I'll have them checked out at our meeting on Friday.
OK, so the total weight is 2.5 grams and the overall diameter of the crescent part of the gold is about 1 centimeter. The stones are gradually increasing in size and the largest is about 3mm in diameter.
Any ideas how much of the 2.5 grams total that the gold is versus the stones ? I was guessing maybe 2.0 grams of 18K and 0.5 grams of stones. That seem about right? Photo below:
4:10 PM Edit - I just looked again at the underside of the crescent part of the gold and can clearly see a partial 18K. I say partial, because there are holes at the bottom of each stone setting and one wiped out the '1' in the 18K, so it is now reading 8K.
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I found a tiny 18k stud last week with a tiny diamond in it... in a puddle in a parking lot.. 
Congrats on the nice score! That must've hurt when she realized it was gone.
