do jewellers stamp solid gold or do they also stamp gold-plated?

Answer 1

Gold plated jewelry is also stamped. Usually it is goldplating over silver. So the stamp will be 925 for silver.

Answer 2

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regulates the hallmarking of precious metal in the United States.

In the U.S., nothing less than 10k gold can be hallmarked for sale in the U.S. or made in the U.S. and shipped to other countries for sale.

Gold-plated jewelry is not hallmarked. Gold-fill (a layer of gold is fused to a layer of base metal) may be marked. However, gold-fill is not gold-plated.

Sterling silver is hallmarked with a .925 or with STERLING. Fine silver is hallmarked with .999. There is now appearing, with the increasing popularity of sterling made with an alloy from the platinum family, new hallmarking symbols attempting to differentiate between traditional sterling and sterling made with the platinum alloy--that's all in flux right now.

Remember--a lack of a hallmark does not necessarily mean that a piece is not 14k gold, 18k gold, etc. and must be a base metal. In the United States a piece cannot be hallmarked unless a maker's mark identifying the maker of the piece is also placed on the piece of jewelry. So, many jewelry makers who do not have their own maker's mark/trademark do not hallmark their pieces of jewelry.

The law requires the maker's mark with the hallmark to show that the maker is standing behind the claim that the piece is indeed what it is hallmarked as.

Answer 3

only real gold is stamped. If it is plated it will not be stamped. only 10k, 14k, 18k, or 20k...cannot make jewelry from pure 24k gold. It's too soft and will bend. The higher the number though, the more gold it contains.

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